Norman Mailer: Works and Days

Excerpts from 'The Deer Park'

Scenes from Mailer's stage adaptation of The Deer Park, published in Seymour Krim's anthology The Beats — part of the long gestation that led to the play's 1967 off-Broadway production.

Cover of The Beats, ed. Seymour Krim (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1960), listing Kerouac, Mailer, Ginsberg, and Ferlinghetti

“Excerpts from ‘The Deer Park’” [scene 2, extracts from scenes 3 and 4, and scenes 7, 10, and 11]. In The Beats, edited by Seymour Krim, 169–201. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, March 1960.

Mailer would later restructure the play for its off-Broadway production in 1967, with the script published that year as The Deer Park: A Play (67.13). Rpt: scenes 2, 3, and 4 in Advertisements for Myself (59.13); scenes 7 and 10 in “Scenes from ‘The Deer Park’” (59.11).

First published: 1960-03
Form: play
Lennon & Lennon: 60.4
Cite as: /works/1960-03-excerpts-from-the-deer-park
Last updated: 2026-05-25