Praise for Mind of an Outlaw "[Mailer's] best and brightest."
--Esquire "The fifty essays collected in this retrospective volume span sixty-four years and show [Norman] Mailer (1923-2007) at his brawny, pugnacious, and egotistical best. . . . This provocative collection brims with insights and reflections that show why Mailer is regarded as a great literary mind of his generation."
--Publishers Weekly "The selections open a window onto the capacious mind and process of one of the most volatile intellects of the twentieth century."
--Library Journal "Vintage Mailer: brilliant, infuriating, witty and never, ever boring."
--Tampa Bay Times "As good an introduction to Mailer's habits of mind as there's ever been."
--Kirkus Reviews "There's no arguing about Mailer the essayist--he was outstanding. . . . These insightful essays educate, argue and persuade on everything from politics and literature to film, philosophy and the human condition."
--Shelf Awareness Praise for Norman Mailer "[Norman Mailer] loomed over American letters longer and larger than any other writer of his generation."
--The New York Times "A writer of the greatest and most reckless talent."
--The New Yorker "Mailer is indispensable, an American treasure."
--The Washington Post "A devastatingly alive and original creative mind."
--Life "Mailer is fierce, courageous, and reckless and nearly everything he writes has sections of headlong brilliance."
--The New York Review of Books "The largest mind and imagination [in modern] American literature . . . Unlike just about every American writer since Henry James, Mailer has managed to grow and become richer in wisdom with each new book."
--Chicago Tribune "Mailer is a master of his craft. His language carries you through the story like a leaf on a stream."
--The Cincinnati Post From the Hardcover edition.