![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Wolfe describes the new genre as journalism that reads “like a novel” because it utilizes four techniques used by novelists: setting the story in specific scenes instead of in dislocated “historical” trends extensive use of realistic dialogue point-of-view narration from the perspective of characters and an eye for the everyday “status” details that reveal the characters’ social reality. Johnson), Wolfe gives a brief history of the genre as he recalls its development by newspaper and magazine feature writers like Gay Talese and Jimmy Breslin in the early 1960s. In an influential 1973 essay, “The New Journalism” (which introduces an anthology of the same name, co-edited by Wolfe and E.W. Yet in the mid-1960s, writing like Wolfe’s carefully researched, stylistically daring articles for New York and Esquire was exactly what critics and readers were referring to when debating the merits of the “new journalism.” Tom Wolfe didn’t invent the “new journalism,” nor did he provide this name with which it was, in his opinion, “ungracefully” saddled. “The New Journalism was the term that caught on eventually… At the time… one was aware only that all of a sudden, there was some sort of artistic excitement in journalism, and that was a new thing in itself.” ![]()
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![]() Most obviously, these books are about class the protagonists tend to be aspirational and upwardly mobile, and obsessively concerned with not living near anybody who doesn’t fit their own standards. ![]() However, one of my neighbours is clearly a big fan of Louise Candlish’s fiction, and has deposited thriller after thriller in our little free neighbourhood library, all of which focus on people buying, selling and losing houses, often because of hostility on their street ( Our House Those People The Sudden Departure of the Frasers.) Although I am a bit concerned about what this says about how my neighbour feels about our other neighbours, I’ve also got into this sub-genre. ![]() Before lockdown, I wasn’t aware that there was a sub-genre of psychological thrillers that centre on property purchases, even though I’d read the occasional novel that would fit this brief – Kate Murray-Browne’s excellent The Upstairs Room is one example. ![]() ![]() The brief visit Fox had with Bull four months ago had been a contentious-but powerful-encounter. So when he gets word of the vandalism occurring on the Walker Ranch, he quickly volunteers the free time he has, thanks to his recent suspension. It’s embedded in his bones to protect and serve his community. Mandel “Fox” Tucker is a sixth-generation SWAT soldier. But when someone threatens to take away the successful ranch that took him two years to rebuild, he’ll accept any help he can get to defend it. Give him his own land to work, a strong horse, and twelve hours of daylight, and he is a contented man. Cover Artist ~ Jay Aheer, Simply Defined Art ![]() |