An Interview with Norman Mailer
A substantial Mademoiselle interview by Eve Auchincloss and Nancy Lynch — discussion of existentialism and 'The White Negro' (57.1), with short comments on Eisenhower and Kennedy, Sartre, and Burroughs. Mailer: 'If you believe that people in their natural state are more beautiful than in their conditioned state, you are optimistic, and you do believe in moral and sexual revolutions.' Reprinted in Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6).
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“An Interview with Norman Mailer.” By Eve Auchincloss and Nancy Lynch. Mademoiselle, February 1961, 76, 160–63. Interview.
A substantial discussion of existentialism and “The White Negro” (57.1), with short comments on Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, Sartre, and Burroughs. Mailer: “If you believe that people in their natural state are more beautiful than in their conditioned state, you are optimistic, and you do believe in moral and sexual revolutions.” Rpt: 88.6 (Conversations with Norman Mailer).
Related pages
- 1961 | Mademoiselle
- The White Negro
- The Homosexual Villain (55.1)
- Conversations with Norman Mailer (88.6)