The New Journalism
(Author) Tom Wolfe'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.
Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe was an American author and journalist known for his innovative writing style and pioneering work in New Journalism. His most famous work, "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," captured the counterculture of the 1960s. Wolfe's vivid prose and immersive storytelling revolutionized literary journalism and influenced a generation of writers.
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