New Journalism

In many of the essays that were collected in the books “Slouching Toward Bethlehem” and “The White Album,” Didion, in contrast to her New Journalism contemporaries, keenly debunked the prevailing myth of the ’60s counterculture as some new utopian portal, instead revealing in her essays a country that was coming undone by its own unchecked permissiveness, inward-looking narcissism and spiritual anomie.

The writer, who dabbled in both fiction and nonfiction, is considered one of the pioneers of New Journalism.

“In Pennsylvania, 34 percent of respondents said they would be more likely to vote for the Democratic nominee if the nominee vowed to withhold weapons to Israel, compared to 7 percent who said they would be less likely. The rest said it would make no difference,” the new journalism site Zeteo reported.

Later, he would spend nearly two years inside Texas prisons to document the lives and conditions there, immersive photography that has been described as the visual equivalent of the era’s New Journalism popularized by the likes of Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe.

Glazer knows his new journalism proposal will face fierce resistance but he’s undaunted.