By Robert S. Boynton
40 years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and homosexual Talese introduced the recent Journalism stream, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to debate their tools, writings and careers.
the recent New reporters are at the beginning extraordinary newshounds who immerse themselves thoroughly of their topics. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mountain climbing excursion to Everest. Ted Conover works for almost a 12 months as a jail shield. Susan Orlean follows orchid fanciers to bare an obsessive way of life few knew existed. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc spends approximately a decade reporting on a family members within the South Bronx. and prefer their muckraking early twentieth-century precursors, they're attracted to the main urgent problems with the day: Alex Kotlowitz, Leon sprint, and William Finnegan to race and sophistication; Ron Rosenbaum to the matter of evil; Michael Lewis to boom-and-bust economies; Richard Ben Cramer to the nitty gritty of politics. How do they do it? In those interviews, they exhibit the strategies and inspirations at the back of their acclaimed works, from their felt-tip pens, tape recorders, lengthy vehicle rides, and assumed identities; to their intimate knowing of how a really nice tale unfolds.
Interviews with:
homosexual Talese
Jane Kramer
Calvin Trillin
Richard Ben Cramer
Ted Conover
Alex Kotlowitz
Richard Preston
William Langewiesche
Eric Schlosser
Leon Dash
William Finnegan
Jonathan Harr
Jon Krakauer
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Michael Lewis
Susan Orlean
Ron Rosenbaum
Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Wright
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Freed from the constraints of newspapers, Cramer reveled in the amount of space he could devote to his intensely reported articles. But even magazines have their limits. Cramer was not pleased when the thirteen-thousand-word Ted Williams profile he turned in to Esquire was cut to eleven thousand words. So the night the article was scheduled to close, he went to Esquire ’s offices and (falsely) assured the art, production, and copy departments that he had received permission to reduce the typeface size in order to reinstate the two thousand missing words.
Then we print out the whole thing and bind it in giant notebooks, each of which is probably about a foot thick. What exactly is in this notebook? Everything. One volume might have every moment of, say, Bob Dole’s career. I might have five different eyewitness accounts of the day Dole became state’s attorney in Russell, Kansas. It will have some notes I wrote when I visited his old office. There will be newspaper clips from the Russell Daily News from that day, as well as the certified vote totals.
The fact is that they aren’t in most places. I teach my students that you can’t be a journalist if you are going to be judgmental. If you have a judgmental reaction in your eyes during an interview, or a judgmental nuance as you pose a question, people will close down. You haven’t done any celebrity journalism. Would you ever? Sure. A celebrity wouldn’t turn me off. Because if a celebrity came into the interviewing project, I would put them through an interview process they had never been through before.
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