I recently discovered the writing style of "New Journalism". It was a style popular in the 70's and is focused less on journalistic fact and more on the writers personal thoughts and experiences. I've read Dispatches and a little of Hunter S. Thompson's investigative journalistic pieces and I completely fell in love with the personal angle that a lot of journalism lacks. I wanted to know if anyone else knows any other articles or books that embody this style.
Gay TaleseTom Wolfe
I don't listen to them but there are a lot of investigative podcasts in this style, you need to be able to tolerate extremely liberal viewpoints though.
Mailer and Capote They did other things in addition to New Journalism but The Armies of the Night. The Executioner’s Song and In Cold Blood are all considered New Journalism
>>24683867Funny thing was Mailer criticized Capote for In Cold Blood for using novelist techniques for a non fiction book when the book first came out and then later came out with The Executioner’s Song
>>24683839these are great for right wingish news
>>24683839I read this and I couldn’t get into it because this “actually I am the center of this story” writing is what we’ve drowned in for 20 years of internet writing. I hate it. Hunter is okay only because he doesn’t even pretend there is a story. If you’re old enough you remember all that embedded journalist shit they made during the iraq and afghanistan war, the government found a way to exploit it so the POV was always “look these guys have been through a lot, it’s hard out here” even when the wars were broadly unpopular, had no real goals and were based on lies (hate us for our democracy, wmds, axis of evil, democratic regime change, etc).
