New Journalism

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A style of news writing and journalism of the 1960s and 1970s, employing a subjective approach and literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time.
- 2000, Thomas Newhouse, The Beat Generation and the Popular Novel in the United States, 1945–1970, McFarland, →ISBN, page 120:
  In some ways the New Journalism of the sixties was a response to the gap left by writers who wrote intensely subjective experimental fiction, like Burroughs, or who made use of fable and myth to create new fictional forms, like Barth and Hawkes.
- 2022 November 1, William Grimes, “Gael Greene, Who Shook Up Restaurant Reviewing, Dies at 88”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:
  A fan of the New Journalism, she put a premium on lively prose and colorful detail, throwing overboard the pompousness of the professional gourmets who dominated the profession.