Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Pierrot

A short story about a prototype Greenwich Village bohemian, first published in the London magazine World Review and later revised — "with many small changes" — into "The Patron Saint of MacDougal Alley" in Advertisements for Myself (59.13).

“Pierrot.” World Review (London), New Series 50 (April–May 1953), 44–50.

A story about a prototype Greenwich Village bohemian. Mailer notes in Advertisements for Myself (59.13) that he wrote it about the same time as his war stories — “The Paper House” (52.2), “The Dead Gook” (52.3), and “The Language of Men” (53.2) — and “The Notebook” (53.4).

Rpt: with many small changes, in Advertisements for Myself (59.13) as “The Patron Saint of MacDougal Alley.”

First published: 1953-04
Form: short-story
Lennon & Lennon: 53.3
Cite as: /works/1953-04-pierrot
Last updated: 2026-06-03