Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
It’s about 1960s America: cars, kids, pop culture. Wolfe was one of the inventors of the New Journalism. We don’t need to write fiction! We can write journalism in the first person with incredible observation! This is not a novel but to call it journalism makes it sound slight. It isn’t. This is a masterpiece of the New Journalism.
And your next choice?
Tom Wolfe is the living writer I most admire. I used to read this book on my knee in maths at school. He does things with words that make me think: ‘How did he do that?’ He made me realise that writing for newspapers and magazines was a great calling. I never tire of reading Tom Wolfe. He is also a man of supreme personal style and irreverence; he never cares who he offends.
What is this book about?
About? Well, it’s about 1960s Americ cars, kids, pop culture. He was one of the inventors of the New Journalism. We don’t need to write fiction! We can write journalism in the first person with incredible observation! This is not a novel but to call it journalism makes it sound slight. It isn’t. This is a masterpiece of the New Journalism.
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Stephen Bayley is one of the world’s best-known authorities on design, architecture and popular culture. Author, critic, columnist, curator, broadcaster and consultant, he was the founding director of London’s Design Museum.
