The New Journalism

by Tom Wolfe

Book Overview

'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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060147075
• ISBN13: 9780060147075
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Harper & Row Barnes & Noble Import Division
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews

20th Century Documents, Documented

This is a wide slice of the mid-century New Journalism epoch. It features charged work from every major player (including Terry Southern and others curiously ignored in Weingarten's overview). The predictions in Wolfe's manifesto haven't panned out as pervasively as he expected - if anything, today's writerly writers, by and large, are more gimmicky, narcissistic and insulated than ever - but that's capital-L Literature's loss, and the night is young. Bring this thing back into print, and don't fear the carnival.

Sorry To See This Book Out of Print

I'm sorry to see that this book out of print. It's both an excellent collection of articles, and a "how-to" for budding writers on how to write in the style of the "new journalism". I'd love to see this book back in print, or even better, a revised edition, with more up-to-date articles (anyone for a collection of New Journalist articles on the 80s and 90s?) and perhaps a new assortment of writers.