Norman Mailer: Works and Days

All Night Long: The Fight, Part II

The second part of Mailer's Playboy serialization of the Ali-Foreman fight; with Part I it won Playboy's 1975 best-nonfiction award.

Playboy, June 1975

“All Night Long: The Fight, Part II,” the conclusion of Mailer’s Playboy serialization (June 1975) on the Muhammad AliGeorge Foreman fight in Zaire. Playboy awarded this excerpt and “The Dead Are Dying of Thirst” (75.8) its annual award for best nonfiction of 1975. With many changes, it became Part II of The Fight (75.12).

First published: 1975-06
Form: nonfiction-narrative
Lennon & Lennon: 75.9
Cite as: /works/1975-06-the-fight-part-ii
Last updated: 2026-06-04