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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11. When the 1960s exploded, mainstream American literature was without resources to describe unfolding reality (as Philip Roth sense early)
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12. "New Journalism" emerged from writers who wanted to describe breakdown of American society & knew traditional novel didn't have model.
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13. One side of New Journalism was novelists who realized they needed to integrate social reality into work: Capote, Mailer, Didion
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14. There's a flipside to story I'm telling: journalists turning to fiction to get at truths beyond codified rules of objectivity.
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15. For the flipside of story, see excellent string of tweets from @LeoJCarey starting here:https://twitter.com/LeoJCarey/status/748706713428262912 …
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16. The flipside is people trained in journalism like Talese (a Timesman in 1950s) found rules of "objectivity" increasingly constraining
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