"The most famous, or infamous, version of [his personal philosophy of hipsterism] was Mr Mailer's controversial 1957 essay, "The White Negro," which seemed to endorse violence as an existential act and declared the murder of a white candy-store owner by two 18-year-old blacks an example of "daring the unknown."
Christian Lorentzen is an associate editor at Harper's magazine
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