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Advertisements for Myself, a diverse and freewheeling tour through Mailer�s early career, covers the many subjects with which he�d grapple for the rest of his life: sex, race, politics, literature, and the systems of power that shape American life. There are lists, interviews, poems, confessions, postscripts, two Tables of Contents (one chronological, one thematic), undergraduate short stories, fragments from a one-act play�and of course, Mailer�s classic, groundbreaking essays, including �The White Negro (Superficial Reflections on the Hipster)�, perhaps Mailer�s most prescient early polemic, and �Mind of an Outlaw�, which lends its name to Mailer�s latest, and first posthumous, collection. A playful, unclassifiable snapshot of American culture at the end of the fifties, Advertisements for Myself, is also a cornerstone of Mailer�s long and prolific career: �In this volume,� declared The New York Times in 1959, �Mr. Mailer, at 36, shows once again that he is the most versatile if not the most significant talent of his generation.�