It bothered these people that they could never find Salinger participating in any pseudo-intellectual tête-à-têtes with self-appointed "literary" critics, attending social dinner parties, doing self-serving television interviews, or otherwise publicizing himself or his books.
He is adept at new media (270,000 Twitter followers), expert at publicizing himself (the readers of Wired magazine gave him the self-promoter of the year award in 2008), and a start-up investor who sees nothing but shiny promise in technology.
But Mr. Ndesandjo has now decided to publicize himself, having written an autobiographical novel, "Nairobi to Shenzhen: A Novel of Love in the East," that reflects his wanderings, the wrestling over his racial identity, his quest to find acceptance in modern China, and mostly, the struggle to understand his father.
Despite his seeming reticence to publicize himself and his company's funds, he's candid here.
Nevertheless, the office was a bully pulpit that allowed him to publicize himself and his political views.
A master at publicizing his movies and himself, Mr. De Laurentiis made a lot of proclamations that were hard to take seriously.
The judgment of Germany's defense minister was questioned after he publicized snapshots of himself and his countess fiancée and used government aircraft for their rendezvous.
In that column, "Like Zally, We're All Victims," Gleason claims that the ratted-out dealer publicized the story himself: the dealer "xeroxed copies of the court testimony which disclosed the arrangements between the cops and the Spoonful and sent them to underground papers and other press".
Ginsberg effectively sacrificed his own literary development, which sagged after "Kaddish" (1961), to publicizing his friends and, of course, himself.
Writing, acting, and publicizing his own plays, Brendan found himself at the forefront of the nascent Sydney fringe, rehearsing in spare rooms but playing to packed houses.
And largely because of his own success in publicizing the West Memphis Three, he found himself competing with at least two other film projects on the subject during the making of "Purgatory").
