March 4, 2005
Drilling Into the Bedrock of Ordinary Experience
When I began teaching a course on American literary journalism, I was puzzled by the 30-year gap between the end of what was considered the New Journalism and the contemporary writers who were my focus. Was everything written since Tom Wolfe's influential 1973 introduction to The New Journalism -- in which he argued that nonfiction, not the novel, had become "the most important literature being written in America today" -- merely a footnote to that movement?
The more I looked
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