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
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
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

Lawrence Wright
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. ...more
Lawrence Wright

Marc Weingarten
It just got ugly in the 1970s for New Journalism, hastened by the decline of general interest magazine. So what happened? Television, mostly, which siphoned away readers and ad dollars, turned celebrity culture into a growth industry, and assured the end of Life, the Saturday Evening Post, and Collier’s – magazine that had published Mailer, Didion, Hersey, and many others. Esquire, New York, and Rolling Stones were no longer must-reads for an engaged readership that couldn’t wait for the next is ...more
Marc Weingarten, Who's Afraid of Tom Wolfe? : How New Journalism Rewrote the World

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