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Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
Vintage
March 2005
496 pages
ISBN: 140003356X
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Non-Fiction
Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay
Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S.
Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he
calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods,
writings and careers. The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant
reporters who immerse themselves completely in their
subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mountaineering
expedition to Everest. Ted Conover works for nearly a year
as a prison guard. Susan Orlean follows orchid fanciers to
reveal an obsessive subculture few knew existed. Adrian
Nicole LeBlanc spends nearly a decade reporting on a family
in the South Bronx. And like their muckraking early
twentieth-century precursors, they are drawn to the most
pressing issues of the day: Alex Kotlowitz, Leon Dash, and
William Finnegan to race and class; Ron Rosenbaum to the
problem of evil; Michael Lewis to boom-and-bust economies;
Richard Ben Cramer to the nitty gritty of politics. How do
they do it? In these interviews, they reveal the techniques
and inspirations behind their acclaimed works, from their
felt-tip pens, tape recorders, long car rides, and assumed
identities; to their intimate understanding of the way a
truly great story unfolds.
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