Advertisements for Myself
Written by Norman Mailer
Narrated by Christopher Lane
3.5/5
()
About this audiobook
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.
Norman Mailer
Norman Mailer was born in 1923 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. In 1955, he was one of the co-founders of The Village Voice. He is the author of more than thirty books, including The Naked and the Dead; The Armies of the Night, for which he won a National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize; The Executioner's Song, for which he won his second Pulitzer Prize; Harlot's Ghost; Oswald's Tale; and The Gospel According to the Son. He lives in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with his wife, the novelist Norris Church Mailer.
More audiobooks from Norman Mailer
An American Dream Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Deer Park: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Naked and the Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Castle in the Forest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Fight Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Of a Fire on the Moon Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ancient Evenings: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Why Are We at War? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Miami and the Siege of Chicago Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barbary Shore: A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Selected Letters of Norman Mailer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Castle in the Forest Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Why Are We in Vietnam?: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Advertisements for Myself
Related audiobooks
Mind of an Outlaw: Selected Essays Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Winesburg, Ohio Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Foreword: A Selection from the John Updike Audio Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBarbary Shore: A Novel Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Selected Letters of Norman Mailer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Are We at War? Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Big Empty: Dialogues on Politics, Sex, God, Boxing, Morality, Myth, Poker and Bad Conscience in America Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Rush for Second Place: Essays and Occasional Writings Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Buckley and Mailer: The Difficult Friendship That Shaped the Sixties Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Manhattan Transfer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Why Are We in Vietnam?: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTransparent Things Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Selected Essays of Gore Vidal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gospel According to the Son: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Molloy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lost Generation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Hooking Up Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gift Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Philip Roth: The Biography Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5King, Queen, Knave Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Views from a Window: Conversations with Gore Vidal Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsF. Scott Fitzgerald’s Greatest Novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, Tales of the Jazz Age, and The Great Gatsby Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Old Wives' Tale Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Miami and the Siege of Chicago Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Quotes by Marcel Proust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Literary Criticism For You
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5C. S. Lewis: Encountering God's Truth through Fiction Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The World of Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lord of the Flies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Catcher in the Rye Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5One in a Millennial: On Friendship, Feelings, Fangirls, and Fitting In Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Conspiracy against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Fahrenheit 451 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5To Kill a Mockingbird Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Meet Me in the Margins Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/51984 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Thalia Book Club: Neil Gaiman: The Ocean at the End of the Lane Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Common Sense Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5On Writing (and Writers): A Miscellany of Advice and Opinions Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brave New World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Outsiders Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking Fast and Slow": A Macat Analysis Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Thalia Book Club: Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Celebration Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Book Thief Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Feminist: Essays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary: Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover: Key Takeaways, Summary & Analysis Included Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for Advertisements for Myself
33 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I don't even know what to say about this. Mailer is such a scumbag but that's the point! "The White Negro" is just completely insane! I hated all the fiction.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5As I remember this is a collection of essays and small pieces. Is "The White Negro" included? I think he was criticizing that bit of NY society the Leonard Bernstein was leading.