Truth and Being; Nothing and Time: A Broken Fragment from a Long Novel
Mailer's first appearance in Evergreen Review: a short story whose subtitle, 'A Broken Fragment from a Long Novel,' signals what the Esquire serialization of An American Dream (1964) will soon become. Reprinted in The Presidential Papers (63.37), The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (67.11), and Pieces and Pontifications (82.19); reprinted in Evergreen Review Reader: A Ten Year Anthology, 1962-1967, Vol. II, ed. Barney Rosset (Grove, 1980).
“Truth and Being; Nothing and Time: A Broken Fragment from a Long Novel.” Evergreen Review, no. 26 (September–October 1962), 68–74. Story.
Mailer’s first appearance in Evergreen Review, the Barney Rosset–edited Grove Press quarterly. The story’s subtitle — A Broken Fragment from a Long Novel — signals what the Esquire serialization of An American Dream in early 1964 (64.x) would soon become: Mailer was already at work on a long novel that he intended to publish in periodical installments, and this story is one of its prefigurations. Rpt: The Presidential Papers (63.37), The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer (67.11), Pieces and Pontifications (82.19); reprinted in Evergreen Review Reader: A Ten Year Anthology, 1962–1967, Vol. II, ed. Barney Rosset (New York: Grove Press, 1980).
Related pages
- 1962 | Evergreen Review | The Short Fiction of Norman Mailer
- The Presidential Papers (63.37) | The Essential Mailer (82.19)