Nobody Could Sleep
Don DeLillo's "Nobody Could Sleep" in Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100 (2023): how, in 1960, he found Advertisements for Myself in a desk drawer at his first job, at an advertising agency, and became "a Mailer man."
Don DeLillo’s “Nobody Could Sleep” (Reflections: Norman Mailer at 100, p. 21) recalls how he “became a Mailer man” in 1960, when he found a copy of Advertisements for Myself in a desk drawer at his first full-time job, at an advertising agency. He still has it, along with a Signet paperback of The Naked and the Dead, whose first sentence gives the piece its title.
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