Friday, July 19, 2024

Ahead Of Tomorrow's 55th Anniversary Of The First Moon Landing, Norman Mailer's 115,000 Word Essay For Life Magazine: "A Fire On The Moon"

correction: someone (ahem) apparently couldn't count to fifty-five and had he wrong anniversary listed in the headline. For traditionalists it is the difference between a sapphire and an emerald i.e. a pretty big mistake on someone's (ahem) part.

Although Life's editors said they didn't pay Mailer by the word, c'mon; no one besides, maybe, Marc Andreessen* goes on and on like that for a flat fee.

From Life Magazine via Google Books:

A Major Report by NORMAN MAILER
A Fire On The Moon

Part I of an extraordinary personal study undertaken for Life by the winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize

Part II: The Psychology of Astronauts
Part III The Future's Face

The coffee table version - unfolds into actual coffee table [kidding]
*In interested see:

November 2016
Marc Andreessen Speaks: "Flying cars are closer than you think"
And speaks, and speaks...
You know how he is....

May, 2015 
Marc Andreessen In the New Yorker:
13,000+ words.
Oct. 2014
New York Magazine's Million Word Interview With Mark Andreessen
It's not really a million words but man-o-mandingo the guy likes to talk.