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The article ran to 13 pages and had a bunch of totally cool pics, including one of the 1963 city room of the New York Herald Tribune , and another of a chain-smoking Jimmy Breslin, who looks as young and powerful as Babe Ruth. The novel was a dead art form, Wolfe declared. All the truly hot writers were experimenting with nonfiction - borrowing narrative tools that were once the domain of literature and turning them to the service of hard street reporting. Wolfe had dozens of examples to point to, including the great Gonzo himself, Hunter S. Thompson , who was then getting stomped by the Hell's Angels in the name of New Journalism. The world had changed.