
The White Album, by Joan Didion
Supercontext: an autopsy of media
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The New Journalism of Tom Wolf
There is a kind of bemusement that she has when she's writing this stuff, especially like she's writing about things like hanging out with the doors or the Hell's Angels. But then also I don't think she felt like one of them. And inside that sort of okay kind of feeling, there's also the sort of kitschy drive that she had when she watched one biker movie and then said that she became fascinated and watched biker movie after biker movieafter biker movie. Okay. So also let's go ahead and firmly code new journalism. New journalism is nonfiction writing, which attempts to communicate facts with narrative storytelling and literary technique. Tom Wolf popularized
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