Norman Mailer: Works and Days

All over America The Deer Park is Getting Nothing but Raves

A paid advertisement composed by Mailer for the Village Voice, ironically titled, that reprints sixteen negative appraisals of The Deer Park — an early instance of a self-advertising technique Mailer would use repeatedly.

“All over America The Deer Park is Getting Nothing but Raves.” Village Voice, 16 November 1955, 8.

A paid advertisement composed by Mailer consisting of negative appraisals of The Deer Park (55.4) from sixteen reviewers. Mailer used this self-advertising technique many times before and after — for example, 73.45.

Rpt: Advertisements for Myself (59.13); 59.14; 76.14.

First published: 1955-11-16
Form: other
Lennon & Lennon: 55.5
Cite as: /works/1955-11-16-deer-park-raves-ad
Last updated: 2026-05-23