Advertisements for Myself

Abstract

NOTE TO THE READER There are two Tables of Contents. First lists each piece in sequence, and anyone wishing to read my book from beginning to end may be pleased to hear that the order is roughly chronological. author, taken with an admirable desire to please his readers, has also added a set of advertisements, printed in italics, which surround all of these writings with his present tastes, preferences, apologies, prides, and occasional confessions. Like many another literary fraud, the writer has been known on occasion to read the Preface of a book instead of a book, and bearing this vice in mind, he tried to make the advertisements more readable than the rest of his pages. Since such a method is discursive, and this is a time in which many hold a fierce grip on their wandering attention, a Second Table of Contents is offered to satisfy the specialist. Here all short stories, short novels, poems, advertisements, articles, essays, journalism, and miscellany are posted in their formal category. For those who care to skim nothing but the cream of each author, and so miss the pleasure of liking him at his worst, I will take the dangerous step of listing what I believe are the best pieces in this book. In order of appearance they might be: * Man Who Studied * White Negro * Of Her * * For Myself On Way * and some of the writing in italics. Advertisements For Myself On Way Out is the title to the Prologue of a long novel. Since one of the purposes of this collection is the intention to clear a ground for that novel, I have taken the opportunity to use a part of the title as a name for this book. Acknowledgment is made to Cross-Section, Story magazine, Harvard Advocate, New Writing, New Short Novels, Independent, One Magazine, Village Voice, the N. Y. Post, Modern Writing, Provincetown Annual, Discovery, Esquire, Partisan Review, Western Review and Dissent, where many of these pieces first appeared. Acknowledgment is also made to magazine and Newsweek for permission to quote from their reviews of Deer Park. date which comes at the end of some of these writings refers to the year in which the piece was written. Where a date does not appear, the material is new and was written during 1958 and 1959 for this book. FIRST TABLE OF CONTENTS Note to the Reader FIRST TABLE OF CONTENTS SECOND TABLE OF CONTENTS First Advertisement for myself Part 1--BEGINNINGS Advertisement for A Calculus At Heaven CALCULUS AT HEAVEN Advertisement for The Greatest Thing in the World THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD Advertisement for Next Year MAYBE NEXT YEAR Part 2--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 Part 3--BIRTHS Advertisement for Part Three Advertisement for The Homosexual Villain THE HOMOSEXUAL VILLAIN Fourth Advertisement for myself: Last Draft of Deer Park THREE EXCERPTS FROM RINEHART AND PUTNAM VERSIONS OF Deer Park Two REVIEWS: AND Newsweek Postscript to the Fourth Advertisement for myself Advertisement for Questions and SIXTY-NINE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Fifth Advertisement for myself: GENERAL MARIJUANA Village Voice: FIRST THREE COLUMNS Postscript to the first three columns Village Voice: COLUMNS FOUR TO SEVENTEEN Advertisement for the End of a Column and a Public Notice PUBLIC NOTICE ON Waiting for Godot Postscript to a Public Notice Part 4--HIPSTERS Sixth Advertisement for myself THE WHITE NEGRO Note to on REFLECTIONS ON HIP HIPSTER AND BEATNIK Advertisement for Hell and the HIP, HELL AND THE NAVIGATOR Part 5--GAMES AND ENDS Advertisement for Games and Ends Advertisement for It IT Advertisement for 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 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, OR THE HOLE IN THE SUMMIT Postscript to Advertisement for Notes Toward a Psychology of the Orgy THE HIP AND THE SQUARE 1. List 2. Catholic and Protestant 3. T-Formation and Single Wing NOTE ON COMPARATIVE PORNOGRAPHY FROM SURPLUS VALUE TO THE MASS-MEDIA SOURCES--A RIDDLE IN PSYCHICAL ECONOMY LAMENT OF LADY I GOT TWO KIDS AND ANOTHER IN THE OVEN Advertisement for 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 Note for The 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 Calculus at Heaven-short novel Greatest Thing in the World-story Maybe Next Year-story Barbary Shore-excerpts from the novel Paper House-story Language of Men-story Gook--story Notebook-story Man Who Studied Yoga-short novel Deer Park-excerpts from the Rinehart and Putnam versions of the novel It-story Great in the Hay-story Patron Saint of Macdougal Alley-story of Her Time-section from a novel in progress 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 Meaning of Western Defense--political article Postscript to The Meaning of Western Defense Homosexual Villain--article Public Notice on Waiting for Godot--criticism White Negro--essay Reflections on Hip--polemics Hipster and Beatnik--article How to Commit Murder in the Mass-Media (A and B)--article Hip and the Square--notes for an essay 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 Columns for Village Voice First three columns Columns Four to Seventeen Letter to the N.Y. Post INTERVIEWS Questions and Hip, Hell, and the Navigator POETRY Drunk's Bebop and Chowder Lament of a Lady I Got Two Kids and Another in the Oven PLAYS Buddies, or Hole in the Summit--a fragment Deer Park-Scenes 2, 3 & 4 BIOGRAPHY OF STYLE First Advertisement for myself Advertisement for A Calculus at Heaven Advertisement for The Greatest Thing in the World Advertisement for 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: Last Draft of 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 on Advertisement for Hell, and the Advertisement for Games and Ends Advertisement for It Advertisement for 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 Deer Park as a Play Last Advertisement for myself Before the Way Note for The of Her Time Advertisement for Dead Ends