Around the 60's through the 70's a unconventional way of non - ficitonal writing came about, New Journalism. It surprised people dramatically. When reading works of new journalism, sometimes you couldn't determine whether what you were reading was fictional or true. Authors like Truman Capote, for his work In Cold Blood; and Hunter S. Thomas, for his work Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. New journalism is said to be ffounded by Truman Capote when he published his famous work In Cold Blood, 1965.
“‘Deal me out, baby,’ Dick said. ‘I’m a normal.’ And Dick meant what he said. He thought of himself as balanced, as sane as anyone—maybe a bit smarter than the average fellow, that’s all. But Perry—there was, in Dick’s opinion, ‘something wrong’ with Little Perry.” (Capote 108)
This quote from In Cold Blood is a good example of what to expect when reading newjournalism. There is the use of dialogue to convey a point. This is what makes new journalism interesting, the use of fictional writing techniques like dialogue in a non-ficition narrative. Its revolutionary, especially during its early peroid.
Today new journalism can be found in sources like The New Yorker, or National Esquire.
“‘Deal me out, baby,’ Dick said. ‘I’m a normal.’ And Dick meant what he said. He thought of himself as balanced, as sane as anyone—maybe a bit smarter than the average fellow, that’s all. But Perry—there was, in Dick’s opinion, ‘something wrong’ with Little Perry.” (Capote 108)
This quote from In Cold Blood is a good example of what to expect when reading newjournalism. There is the use of dialogue to convey a point. This is what makes new journalism interesting, the use of fictional writing techniques like dialogue in a non-ficition narrative. Its revolutionary, especially during its early peroid.
Today new journalism can be found in sources like The New Yorker, or National Esquire.
