New Journalism

The literary journalism movement of the 1960s–70s that applied fiction techniques (scene-by-scene construction, dialogue, point of view, status details) to nonfiction reportage.

Tom Wolfe's manifesto (1973): four devices borrowed from the novel — scene-by-scene construction, extensive dialogue, third-person point of view shifting, and recording of everyday gestures and details that signal social status. The result: nonfiction with the immersive impact of fiction. New journalists embedded themselves in their subjects (Thompson's participatory journalism, Didion's lyric journalism). Transformed literary nonfiction and long-form journalism.