The Mind of an Outlaw
Mailer's watershed essay on the ordeal of writing and publishing The Deer Park — the Rinehart suppression and the agonized rewriting — published in Esquire just before Advertisements for Myself, into which it was folded as the "Fourth Advertisement for Myself."
“The Mind of an Outlaw.” Esquire, November 1959, 87–90, 92, 94.
A watershed essay on the struggle to publish The Deer Park (55.4) — its suppression by Rinehart and the last-draft rewriting that followed. The November Esquire appeared just before Advertisements for Myself (59.13).
Rpt: as “Fourth Advertisement for Myself: The Last Draft of The Deer Park” in Advertisements for Myself (59.13); 76.14; 13.1.