Read By: Chris Kraus
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Chris Kraus on her selection:
A friend recommended The Executioner\\u2019s Song to me when I started researching a book set on the Iron Range of northern Minnesota. Mailer wrote it in 1979 based on events that occurred in Utah between 1976-1977. The culture described in the book feels close to the world I observed on the Range a half century later \\u2026 different drugs, different guns and vehicle models, but the values and mindset are remarkably similar. Mailer\\u2019s book could not be more prescient.
The Executioner\\u2019s Song, by Norman Mailer
Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0
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