Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out

A story told from an omniscient perspective about Marion Faye of The Deer Park in Provincetown — originally titled "The Time of the Evil Saint," and conceived as part of the projected long-novel cycle that "The Man Who Studied Yoga" was to preface.

“Advertisements for Myself on the Way Out.” Partisan Review 25 (fall 1958), 519–40.

A story, told from an omniscient perspective, about Marion Faye of The Deer Park (55.4) in Provincetown. Its original title was “The Time of the Evil Saint”. It belongs to the same projected cycle of interlocking novels that “The Man Who Studied Yoga” (56.25) was meant to introduce.

Rpt: Advertisements for Myself (59.13, with the subtitle “Prologue to a Long Novel”); 67.11; 82.19.

First published: 1958
Form: short-story
Lennon & Lennon: 58.4
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Last updated: 2026-06-03