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Tom Wolfe: The Birth of ‘The New Journalism’

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Participant reveals main factors leading to demise of the novel, rise of new style covering events.

Photo: New York Magazine Editor’s note: This story first appeared in the February 14 and 21, 1972, issues of New York . It was also featured in Reread , New York’s subscriber-only archives newsletter. Click here to read the newsletter this appeared in. I. The Feature Game I doubt if many of the aces I will be extolling in this story went into journalism with the faintest notion of creating a “new” journalism, a “higher” journalism, or even a mildly improved variety. I know they never dreamed that anything they were going to write for newspapers or magazines would wreak such evil havoc in the l

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