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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This seems to be disputed:https://kevinbrennanbooks.wordpress.com/2014/02/19/did-the-cia-infiltrate-the-iowa-writers-workshop-in-the-60s-uh-no/ …
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Well, aside from Iowa, CIA did in fact subsidize many high brow literary journals: Paris Review, Partisan Review,
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