With the publication of The Naked and the Dead, Mailer became a celebrity, and he basked in the attendant publicity.His second novel, Barbary Shore, was a critical and financial failure.

• 公开宣称自己要成为海明威那样的全方位的男性典范.；但是海明威认为成为公众人物会遮蔽作者的犀利；M也同意这一点