Cool Realism: The New Journalism and New York Literary Culture

Daniel Worden

Read:
Joan Didion, “Insider Baseball”; Norman Mailer, “Superman Comes to the Supermarket”; Daniel Worden, “Neo-Liberal Non-Fictions”

Suggested Additional Readings: Louis Menand, “It Took a Village: How The Voice Changed Journalism” New Yorker (Jan. 5, 2009); Norman Sims, True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism. Northwestern UP, 2007. Selections from The Village Voice Reader, ed. Daniel Wolf (Grove Press, 1963).

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