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"The Man Who Studied Yoga", a novella by Norman Mailer written in 1952, was first published in the 1956 collection New Short Novels 2 then later in Mailer's 1959 miscellany Advertisements for Myself (AFM). It is a tale of a "writer manqué", or a writer who fails to write, reflecting some of Mailer's own anxiety in the 1950s as he tries to reinvent himself.
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- ↑ Giunta, Edvige (2016). "The Case of Agnes Rossi". Writing With An Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors. Springer. pp. 77–87. ISBN 9781137050496.
- ↑ Barolini, Helen (1999). Chiaroscuro: Essays of Identity. University of Wisconsin Press. p. 203. ISBN 9780299160845.
- ↑ Bona, Mary Jo (1999). Claiming a Tradition: Italian American Women Writers. SIU Press. p. 226. ISBN 9780809322589.
