New Journalism the Pb - Softcover

Wolfe, Tom

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060471832 ISBN 13: 9780060471835

Publisher: Harpercollins College Div, 1973

Synopsis

‘The hell with it . . . let chaos reign . . . louder music, more wine . . . All the old traditions are exhausted and no new one is yet established. All bets are off! The odds are cancelled! It’s anybody’s ballgame . . . ’

Tom Wolfe introduces and exults in his generation’s journalistic talent:

Truman Capote inside the mind of a psychotic killer

Hunter S. Thompson skunk drunk at the Kentucky Derby

Michael Herr dispatching reality from the Vietnam killing fields

Rex Reed giving the star treatment to the ageing Ava Gardner

As well as

Norman Mailer

Joe Eszterhas

Terry Southern

Nicholas Tomalin

George Plimpton

James Mills

Gay Talese

Joan Didion

and many other legends of tape and typewriter telling it like it is from Warhol’s Factory to the White House lawn, from the saddle of a Harley to the toughest football team in the US.

About this title

Book Description:

With an anthology edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson

About the Author:

Tom Wolfe (b. 1931) is an American journalist and author. He worked for The Washington Post and The New York Herald Tribune, amongst others. There, he experimented with a new genre which he called New Journalism, in which journalists experiment with the use of literary devices in their news reporting. His first work of fiction, The Bonfire of the Vanities, was published in 1987.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins College Div
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0060471832
• ISBN 13: 9780060471835
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394