Life-View
Mailer's own short essay introducing The Naked and the Dead to readers of Book Find News on the occasion of the novel's selection by the Book Find Club.
“Life-View.” Book Find News [July 1948], ed. George Braziller, 6.
A brief essay on The Naked and the Dead — a Book Find Club selection — including Mailer’s plea that it be read “as a novel by a young man who immodestly or not has tried to compound his experience and imagination into something more complex than he could render in speech or by an essay”.
Notable as one of the earliest instances of Mailer framing his own work for readers; the stance anticipates the self-presenting mode that would culminate in Advertisements for Myself.