The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer
An anthology of selections from Mailer's major books through Of a Fire on the Moon, edited with an introduction by Robert F. Lucid; World Publishing, 25 October 1971.
The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer, edited with an introduction by Robert F. Lucid, was published by World Publishing on 25 October 1971. It gathers selections from all of Mailer’s major books through Of a Fire on the Moon (71.1), with an important critical introduction by Lucid and short headnotes — carrying publication details — to each selection. Lucid, who with Mailer’s mother had created Mailer’s literary archive in the late 1960s, served as one of Mailer’s literary executors until his death in December 2006.