New Journalism


In Cold Blood
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
The Right Stuff
Hell's Angels
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
The White Album
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
Hiroshima
The Executioner's Song
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
The Year of Magical Thinking
Dispatches
As Time Goes By by W. Royce AdamsThe Ride by Kostya KennedyAnd the Band Played On by Randy ShiltsUnder the Banner of Heaven by Jon KrakauerTilly by Monique Gray Smith
Best nonfiction
95 books — 35 voters
Songs from the Well by Adam Byrn TrittThe Uncommon Thread by R. Scott AndersonSlouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan DidionEssays by George OrwellThe White Album by Joan Didion
Best essays/essayists
219 books — 62 voters

Ted Conover
...required for good fiction: character, conflict, change through time. And if you're really blessed, you get resolution. But life doesn't usually work out that way. ...more
Ted Conover

Joe Eszterhas
They were hometown hippies who primped in the cracked mirror of their egos and saw themselves as more intelligent, more humane, more real than their plastic deodorized elders. They were the victims of a freeze-dried generational racism which would not forgive their long loathsome hair and their scuzzy tramp-clothes. So now, cast in a psychodrama partly of their own design, they grew their hair even longer and let their jeans get grubbier. They asked for it: the audience reaction was confirmation ...more
Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse

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