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A Vintage Books Original, March 2005 Copyright © 2005 by Robert S. Boynton All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc. Cataloging-in-Publication Data for The New New Journalism is on file at the Library of Congress www.vintagebooks.com www.randomhouse.com eISBN: 978-0-307-42904-9 v3.0
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Table of Contents Title Page Dedica
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To Helen
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Acclaim for The New New Journalism
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Preface I had neither studied nor t
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perceived as bizarre tribes one stu
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work is the spirit with which he pr
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for a movement than an advertisemen
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and reporting (the latter developme
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Crane did before them—bridge the
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Journalists have revived the tradit
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Sims, Norman, and Mark Kramer, eds.
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infantrymen in the army of homeless
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a marginal or strange subculture—
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“Disdain” is too strong a word.
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of the academy that I’d be assign
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Well, not really. I was never comfo
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sacred to me. I know that if I were
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expand on brief notes, transcribe q
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experienced Denver as a member of a
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history or policy. Or than when I
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Bruce Chatwin, anything by J. M. Co
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Freed from the constraints of newsp
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For his most recent book, How Israe
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Now I’ve known a lot of politicia
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gathering information. So the first
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I learned it in Baltimore when I wa
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How did they respond? They were won
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write anything down, but the conver
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What kind of a presence do you like
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earned him the moniker of “staff
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I want to understand the lives of p
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You haven’t done any celebrity jo
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I never know. I do know that I don
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When Children Want Children, I rent
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I like doing interviews over meals
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Do you believe journalism can lead
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Supporting himself through odd jobs
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the editor’s house, but it had a
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their activities, takes precedence,
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public policy, etc., play in your w
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How do you get people to ignore you
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American landscape to someone who h
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tried to kill him, and a drive-by s
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Has taking notes openly ever been a
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anymore. I trust my editors more th
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Do you see yourself as part of an h
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JONATHAN HARR In February 1986, Jon
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to have his application rejected. T
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Mostly I prefer to choose my own id
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young lawyers, so he was a natural
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is writing: creating something on t
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of the typed notes and put them int
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typewriter, it is between you and t
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There is only one person who reads
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Do you believe your brand of journa
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narrative articles on topics that h
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Unprotected,” February 8, 1999].
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Public figures. Often when I write
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had been fired from the force after
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How much will you challenge someone
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easy for them to condemn him, and t
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“Off the record” is such an amb
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enormous amount of time on it. If y
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to remind yourself constantly that
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JON KRAKAUER Jon Krakauer’s pride
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party to the death of good people,
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identified a decent-size town just
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e stubborn and determined and, abov
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season lasts six hours and yet can
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journalism fellows who attacked me
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contentious, with everybody jabberi
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important passages. When I was on M
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I got back from Everest in May 1996
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contradictory. Although I may have
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JANE KRAMER Jane Kramer writes abou
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Kramer’s questions—Who has the
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Unsettling Europe. I think I must h
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How do you decide whom to interview
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How do you begin an interview? If i
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There are exceptions to this, of co
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I can pretend a stranger has writte
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I think it comes out of the English
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Europeans, Farrar, Straus and Girou
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Wolfgang Langewiesche, was a pilot
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society, and our own bewilderment a
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of the “normal accident,” in th
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going, and it gets really interesti
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What kind of a notebook do you use?
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from it freely. How do you start wr
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V. S. Naipaul is another writer who
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ADRIAN NICOLE LEBLANC There were ni
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guaranteed that the book would be w
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used to say. Also, the reader tends
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Sadly, variations on a theme. It’
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How much do you share about your pr
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Do you tape your interviews? Yes, b
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Do you write chronologically? Usual
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would have liked to include. Someti
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ought him into mild conflict with h
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were the ones who provided a truly
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economics of the game kept poor tea
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eporting. It presumes that the actu
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“Come with me while I scout baseb
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For example, I wrote all my New Rep
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the way I used to write. I liked to
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interested. It is a level of confid
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SUSAN ORLEAN New Yorker writer Susa
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Orlean and her husband, John Gilles
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What is your filtering process? As
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whether because of access or other
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Why frustrating? Well, when I hire
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little threads of who they are and
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I make clear I didn’t observe. I
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icher version of experience than me
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RICHARD PRESTON Richard Preston may
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The virologist told Preston of an o
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which I probably pursue five storie
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all agents from talking to me on th
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Level 4, but they won’t come out.
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I tell the story of how I found the
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techniques. When you’re interview
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and emotional environment all aroun
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I have to sort through it with the
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Any particular time of day you writ
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literary nonfiction is no different
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RON ROSENBAUM As a child growing up
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een eliminated? He began a historic
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When I talked about Doyle with Esqu
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No, I bring them along so that I ca
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What changed? I finally found a met
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Does exercise help? I used to get a
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fiction. I learn so much when I pic
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in California [“In the Strawberry
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heard Pete Wilson, who was governor
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What kinds of people do you most an
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pretty straightforward: I say who I
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Well, the drug dealers I interviewe
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editors would. I care about every s
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GAY TALESE Tom Wolfe once dubbed Ga
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Some critics accused Talese of bein
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great story. How do you decide a
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Okay, that might get you a whole af
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Where do you most like interviewing
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say, “I can’t do any better. Ga
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Honor Thy Father, World, 1971 Fame
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chief, judged that it came “close
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Raymond Chandler or Ross MacDonald,
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Are you always aware when you’re
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Time bureau in Atlanta in the early
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Do you negotiate ground rules in or
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Page 305 and 306: Yes. Before computers, I wrote by p
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Page 353: ABOUT THE AUTHOR Robert S. Boynton
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