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unusual facts about The New Journalism



Nicholas Tomalin

His article The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong was included in Tom Wolfe's collection The New Journalism, which was a collection of non-fiction pieces emblematic of a new movement of reporting aimed at revolutionising the field.

The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved

It was later reprinted in Tom Wolfe's anthology The New Journalism (1973) and also in one of Thompson's own books The Great Shark Hunt (1979), a book collecting several of his earlier works.


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Susan Zakin

Coyotes and Town Dogs is a history of the U.S. conservation movement since Earth Day 1970, written in the New Journalism style of Tom Wolfe and Hunter S. Thompson.