title: At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing: A Library of America Special Publication
author: Various
description: &ldquo;For a nimble sample of prizefight prose, Don King couldn&rsquo;t have put together a better card.&rdquo; <b>&mdash;<i>Time</i></b>
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  Exisfentiol Errands comprises twenty-eight
  pieces selected by the author from his writing
  in
  the
  past
  five
  years.
  Herein,
  Mailer
  on
  boxers and
  bullfighting,
  movies and
  plays,
  books and
  authors,
  foreign wars and
  do-
  mestic
  conflicts. Black Power and white pol-
  itics;
  his famous account
  of
  the
  Ali-Frazier
  fight,
  his essay on the making of Maidstone,
  homage to an
  idiotic and
  brilliant young
  bullfighter, speeches from his New York may-
  oralty
  campaign,
  a
  one-act
  play adapted
  from Why Are We
  in Vietnam?,
  his "Open
  Letter to Richard Nixon," plus interviews,
  let-
  ters,
  articles,
  critiques, and
  "capsule
  enter-
  tainments."
  Taken together, they present an impressive
  demonstration of the wit, the penetrating
  in-
  sight— the astonishing range and catholicity
  of one of America's
  most
  notable
  literary
  figures.
  "Mailer's mind
  is a national resource." —
  John
  Leonard,
  The New
  York
  Times Book
  Review
  Continued on back flap
  
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  BOSTOl^
  PUBLIC
  LIBRARY
  
  Books
  by
  Norman
  Mailer
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