The Notebook
A very short story — "written in an hour," Mailer says — about writers as perpetual observers, first published in the venerable London quarterly The Cornhill Magazine and later gathered into Advertisements for Myself (59.13).
“The Notebook.” The Cornhill Magazine, no. 996 (summer 1953), 481–84.
A story, “written in an hour,” as Mailer reports in the prefatory “advertisement” to it in Advertisements for Myself (59.13) — a brief sketch about writers as perpetual observers. The summer 1953 Cornhill lists Mailer on its cover among contributors Harold Nicolson, Tom Hopkinson, Peter Mayne, Elisabeth Kyle, and Wilmer Hamilton.
Rpt: The Berkley Book of Modern Writing, No. 3, ed. William Phillips and Philip Rahv (New York: Berkley, January 1956, softcover); Advertisements for Myself (59.13); 67.11; 82.19.
A bibliographic note: although Cornhill is not listed on the acknowledgments page of Advertisements for Myself (59.13) and The Berkley Book of Modern Writing is, Mailer states in the prefatory “advertisement” to the story that Cornhill has precedence.
Related pages
- 1953 | The Cornhill Magazine
- Pierrot | The Language of Men | Advertisements for Myself
- The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (67.11)