In this issue on page 14 is a "Required Reading" list of non-fiction works by Norman Mailer, including The Executionare's Song which is similar in style and content to Capote's In Cold Blood - although considered a novel at the time, today it would probably be published as nonfiction because it is so well researched. Other interesting nonfiction Mailer works include The Armies of the Night (1968, Vietnam War); Of A Fire on the Moon (1971, Apollo 11); Marilyn (1973, Monroe's life); The Fight (1975, "Rumble in the Jungle").

Two pieces were my favorites, Jerald Walker's "The Heart" about his younger brother who married a heroin addict and the authors heart break over his brothers Jerry Springer lifestyle. Jim Kennedy in "End of the Line" describes how his 10-year old son drowned near OC Maryland, caught in an undertow. ( )