The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft-Fast Shipping

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Forty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the NewJournalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of whathe calls the New New Journalism to discuss their methods, writings and careers.

The New New Journalists are first and foremost brilliant reporters who immerse themselvescompletely in their subjects. Jon Krakauer accompanies a mountaineering expeditionto Everest. Ted Conover works for nearly a year as a prison guard. Susan Orlean followsorchid fanciers to reveal an obsessive subculture few knew existed. Adrian NicoleLeBlanc spends nearly a decade reporting on a family in the South Bronx. And liketheir muckraking early twentieth-century precursors, they are drawn to the most pressingissues 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; RichardBen 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 theirfelt-tip pens, tape recorders, long car rides, and assumed identities; to their intimateunderstanding of the way a truly great story unfolds.

Interviews with:
Gay Talese
Jane Kramer
Calvin Trillin
Richard Ben Cramer
Ted Conover
Alex Kotlowitz
RichardPreston
William Langewiesche
Eric Schlosser
Leon Dash
William Finnegan
JonathanHarr
Jon Krakauer
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Michael Lewis
Susan Orlean
Ron Rosenbaum
Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Wright