Topic 4:

What is the Nonfiction Novel?

Faction:
New Journalism & the Non-fiction Novel

Themes:
1. Gonzo & New Journalism
   Primary Text:
   • Norman Mailer: from The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History (1968)
   Critical Text:
   • Tom Wolfe: "Introduction." In The New Journalism (1973)


2. Creative Non-fiction & Life Writing
   Primary Texts:
   • Hunter S. Thompson: "“The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” (1970)
   • Martin Edmond: from Chronicle of the Unsung (2004)

Author Pages:

1. Martin Edmond (1952- )


2. Norman Mailer (1923-2007)


3. Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)


4. Tom Wolfe (1931- )

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Selected Poems of Mahmoud Darwish
trans. Ian Wedde & Fawwaz Tuqan (1973)

Gonzo & New Journalism

Anthology Readings [pp. 157-76]:

• Norman Mailer: from The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History (1968)
• Tom Wolfe: "Introduction." In The New Journalism (1973)

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Derek Walcott: Another Life (1973)

Creative Non-fiction & Life Writing

Anthology Readings [pp.141-56]:

• Hunter S. Thompson: "“The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved” (1970)
• Martin Edmond: from Chronicle of the Unsung (2004)

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