2. So it looks like Gay Talese's new book The Voyeur's Motel has serious problems because his main source is very unreliable.
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3. Here's a Washington Post write-up of the problems with Talese's book, which he's now seemingly disavowing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/author-gay-talese-disavows-his-latest-book-amid-credibility-questions/2016/06/30/1fede2b8-3e22-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html …
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4. Stepping back, key to understanding what's happening is that Talese is pioneer of the New Journalism.
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5. The New Journalism aimed to import the techniques of fiction into journalism. In practice this meant it often became a branch of fiction.
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6. Talese is not the first work of the New Journalism to become entangled in questions of accuracy. Problem is endemic in genre.
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7. Aside from Talese, Capote's In Cold Blood being a prime example of fictionalizing New Journalism. Also others.pic.twitter.com/aFuJ9PG50j
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8. Best way to understand New Journalism is that it was always branch of fiction & a revolt against constraints of bourgeois literary novel
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9. Briefly, post-WWII saw triumph of CIA-sponsored Iowa-taught literary fiction: novels about suburban adultery, etc.
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10. Defining fact of post-war bourgeois literature was what it exclude: class, politics, grit of world outside of suburbs.
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Seems like New Journalism was trying to get at The Truth about America, while reporting is supposed to be the truth. Part of it?
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