NPR has a good piece about a new book about New Journalism, The Journalists Who Wouldn’t Write Straight. I always find the new journalist’s fascinating. Check out the interview Terry Gross has with author Marc Weingarten. “The book follows the evolution of a new style of storytelling, in which writers immersed themselves in the experiences they described in the pages of magazines like Esquire and New York. While based on fact, stories by early practitioners Norman Mailer and Truman Capote were also full of personal impressions,” writes NPR. “Weingarten follows that evolution — and the way it changed the business of journalism — by following the careers of writers and editors who were at the center of it all.”
