The Best Move Lies Very Close to the Worst
Mailer's Esquire essay (October 1993) on boxing and his friendship with the actor Ryan O'Neal, with appearances by José Torres and Sylvester Stallone.
“The Best Move Lies Very Close to the Worst,” Mailer’s essay for Esquire (October 1993, 60–62, 64, 186), turns on boxing and his friendship with the actor Ryan O’Neal — the two had bonded over the sport since 1980 — with appearances by the former champion José Torres and Sylvester Stallone. Reprinted in The Time of Our Time (98.7) and Mind of an Outlaw (13.1).
Related pages
- Ryan O’Neal | José Torres
- 1993
- The Time of Our Time (98.7) | The Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays of Norman Mailer (13.1)