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Advertisements for Myself

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ISBN-10: 0674005902

ISBN-13: 9780674005907

Edition: 1992 (Reprint)

Authors: Norman Mailer

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Originally published in 1959, Advertisements for Myself is an inventive collection of stories, essays, polemic, meditations, and interviews. It is Mailer at his brilliant, provocative, outrageous best. Emerging at the height of "hip," Advertisements is at once a chronicle of a crucial era in the formation of modern American culture and an important contribution to the great autobiographical tradition in American letters.
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Book details

List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/15/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 532
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Norman Kingsley Mailer was born on January 31, 1923 in Long Branch, N. J. and then moved with his family to Brooklyn, N. Y. Mailer later attended Harvard University and graduated with a degree in aeronautical engineering. Mailer served in the Army during World War II, and later wrote, directed, and acted in motion pictures. He was also a co-founder of the Village Voice and edited Disssent for nine years. Mailer has written several books including: The Armies of the Night, which won the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and a Polk Award; and The Executioner's Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. In 2005, he won the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the…    

A Note to the Reader
First Table of Contents
Second Table of Contents
First Advertisement for myself
Beginnings
Advertisement for "A Calculus At Heaven"
A Calculus at Heaven
Advertisement for "The Greatest Thing in the World"
The Greatest Thing in the World
Advertisement for "Maybe Next Year"
Maybe Next Year
Middles
Second Advertisement for myself
Excerpts from Barbary Shore
Third Advertisement for myself
Advertisement for Three War Stories
The Paper House
The Language of Men
The Dead Gook
Advertisement for "The Notebook"
The Notebook
Advertisement for "The Man Who Studied Yoga"
The Man who Studied Yoga
Advertisement for Three Political Pieces
Our Country and Our Culture (Partisan Review Symposium)
David Riesman Reconsidered
The Meaning of Western Defense
Postscript to "The Meaning of Western Defense"
Births
Advertisement for Part Three
Advertisement for "The Homosexual Villain"
The Homosexual Villain
Fourth Advertisement for myself: The Last Draft of The Deer Park
Three Excerpts from Rinehart and Putnam Versions of The Deer Park
Two Reviews: Time and Newsweek
Postscript to the Fourth Advertisement for myself
Advertisement for Sixty-Nine Questions and Answers
sixty-nine Questions and Answers
Fifth Advertisement for myself: General Marijuana
The Village Voice: First Three Columns
Postscript to the first three columns
The Village Voice: Columns Four to Seventeen
Advertisement for the End of a Column and a Public Notice
A Public Notice on Waiting for Godot
Postscript to a Public Notice
Hipsters
Sixth Advertisement for myself
The White Negro
Note to "Reflections on Hip"
Reflections On Hip
Hipster and Beatnik
Advertisement for "Hip, Hell and the Navigator"
Hip, Hell and the Navigator
Games and Ends
Advertisement for "Games and Ends"
Advertisement for "It" it
Advertisement for "Great in the Hay"
Great in the Hay
Advertisement for "The Patron Saint of Macdougal Alley"
The Patron Saint of Macdougal Alley
Advertisement for a letter to the New York Post
A Letter to the New York Post
How to Commit Murder in the Mass-Media--A
How to Commit Murder in the Mass Media--B
Advertisement for Buddies
Buddies, or the Hole in the Summit
Postscript to Buddies
Advertisement for "Notes Toward a Psychology of the Orgy"
The Hip and the Square
The List
Catholic and Protestant
T-Formation and Single Wing
A Note on Comparative Pornography
From Surplus Value to the Mass-Media
Sources--A Riddle in Psychical Economy
Lament of a Lady
I Got Two Kids and Another in the Oven
Advertisement for The Deer Park as a play
The Deer Park (Scenes 2, 3, and 4)
An Eye on Picasso
Evaluations: Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room
Last Advertisement for myself Before the Way Out
A Note for "The Time of Her Time"
The Time of her Time
Advertisement for "Dead Ends"
Dead Ends (a long poem)
Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out
Second Table of Contents
Fiction
A Calculus at Heaven-short novel
The Greatest Thing in the World-story
Maybe Next Year-story
Barbary Shore-excerpts from the novel
The Paper House-story
The Language of Men-story
The Dead Gook--story
The Notebook-story
The Man Who Studied Yoga-short novel
The Deer Park-excerpts from the Rinehart and Putnam versions of the novel
It-story
Great in the Hay-story
The Patron Saint of Macdougal Alley-story
The Time of Her Time-section from a novel in progress
Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out--Prologue to a Novel in Progress
Essays and Articles
Our Country and Our Culture--a contribution to a Partisan Review Symposium
David Riesman Reconsidered--criticism
The Meaning of Western Defense--political article
Postscript to "The Meaning of Western Defense"
The Homosexual Villain--article
A Public Notice on Waiting for Godot--criticism
The White Negro--essay
Reflections on Hip--polemics
Hipster and Beatnik--article
How to Commit Murder in the Mass-Media (A and B)--article
The Hip and the Square--notes for an essay
A Note on Comparative Pornography-article
From Surplus Value to the Mass-Media--political article
Sources--a riddle in psychical economy
An Eye on Picasso--critical note
Evaluations: Quick and Expensive Comments on the Talent in the Room--criticism
Journalism
The Columns for The Village Voice
First three columns
Columns Four to Seventeen
A Letter to the N.Y. Post
Interviews
Sixty-Nine Questions and Answers
Hip, Hell, and the Navigator
Poetry
The Drunk's Bebop and Chowder
Lament of a Lady
I Got Two Kids and Another in the Oven
Dead Ends
Plays
Buddies, or The Hole in the Summit--a fragment
The Deer Park-Scenes 2, 3 & 4
Biography of a Style
First Advertisement for myself
Advertisement for "A Calculus at Heaven"
Advertisement for "The Greatest Thing in the World"
Advertisement for "Maybe Next Year"
Second Advertisement for myself
Third Advertisement for myself
Advertisement for Three War Stories
Advertisement for "The Notebook"
Advertisement for "The Man Who Studied Yoga"
Advertisement for Three Political Pieces
Advertisement for Part Three
Advertisement for "The Homosexual Villain"
Fourth Advertisement for myself: The Last Draft of The Deer Park
Postscript to the Fourth Advertisement for myself
Advertisement for "Sixty-Nine Questions and Answers"
Fifth Advertisement for myself: General Marijuana
Postscript to the first three columns
Advertisement for the End of a Column and a Public Notice
Postscript to a Public Notice
Sixth Advertisement for myself
Note to "Reflections on Hip"
Advertisement for "Hip, Hell, and the Navigator"
Advertisement for "Games and Ends"
Advertisement for "It"
Advertisement for "Great in the Hay"
Advertisement for "The Patron Saint of Macdougal Alley"
Advertisement for a letter to the New York Post
Advertisement for "Buddies"
Postscript to "Buddies"
Advertisement for "Notes Toward a Psychology of the Orgy"
Advertisement for The Deer Park as a Play
Last Advertisement for myself Before the Way Out
A Note for "The Time of Her Time"
Advertisement for "Dead Ends"