3 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Tom Wolfe's 1968 New Journalism account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters' cross-country LSD-fueled bus tour — the defining document of the California counterculture's psychedelic phase.
Tom Wolfe's 1983 Esquire essay profiling Robert Noyce — co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel — which is widely considered the best single piece of writing about the founding culture of Silicon Valley.
American journalist and novelist — founder of New Journalism — author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, The Bonfire of the Vanities, A Man in Full, I Am Charlotte Simmons, and The Right Stuff — who created the most important American journalism genre of the 20th century.