The participatory journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion
Subtitle: creating new reporting styles
By: Jason Mosser ; with a preface by Philip Sipiora
Publisher: The Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lewiston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773425996
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; American prose literature; History and criticism; Journalism; History; American Reportage literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: participatory new journalism; title: Michael Herr's dispatches: journalist as hipster and postmodern hero; title: Norman Mailer's The armies of the night:  journalist as novelist and intellectual; title: Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and loathing: on the campaign trail '72: journalist as prankster and prophet; title: Joan Didion's Salvador and Miami: journalist as witness and oracle.