Norman Mailer: Works and Days

The Hipster and the American Right

Interview by an unidentified interviewer in Phoenix, the University of Chicago undergraduate journal — spring 1963. Focuses on alienation, with a long answer on the distinction between the psychopathic and the psychotic.

“The Hipster and the American Right.” Interview by unidentified interviewer. Phoenix (University of Chicago), spring 1963, 4–5. Focuses on alienation, with a long answer on the distinction between the psychopathic and the psychotic — themes Mailer had been developing since “The White Negro” (57.4) and the Krassner Impolite Interview (62.21).

First published: 1963
Form: interview
Lennon & Lennon: 63.24
Cite as: /works/1963-spring-hipster-and-american-right
Last updated: 2026-05-27