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New Journalism

Walter Lippman worried about a time when people “cease to respond to truths, and respond simply to opinions—what somebody asserts, not what actually is.”

John Fea   |  March 4, 2025

Check out Jeannette Cooperman’s essay at Common Reader on the late white-suited writer Tom Wolfe. She has some interesting thoughts on the so-called “New Journalism” of the 1960s and 1970s. A taste: Did Wolfe do such a good job capturing […]

The New Journalism and the “war over creative nonfiction”

John Fea   |  June 6, 2024

I will start this post with this: If you are a creative nonfiction writer we want to see your work at Current. Maybe this piece by Eric Bennet at The Chronicle of Higher Education will inspire you to send us […]