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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