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 …Jeet Heer added,
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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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17. What I'd emphasize is that revolt against objectivity had a political/social dimension. Objectivity in newspapers was elite consensus.
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18. The Objectivity of 1950s New York Times rested on elite consensus about reality which broke down in 1960s, hence need for new approaches
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19. To clarify: none of this is meant to be a defence of Talese. He worked on a book for 36 years without nailing down basic facts.
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20. Lots of smart responses/rebuttals to my tweets. Suggest people check out @LeoJCarey, @michelledean, @JeffSharlet, @theturner etc.
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All true. Mainstream & genre fiction were defined by what mainstream excluded.
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