Farris Hassan’s day off
I don’t normally see how e-mail can have the same cachet as the mojo wire... unless it comes from a Florida teen-ager via the Kuwait City Airport without his parent’s approval. Farris Hassan needs to read Hell’s Angels. Especially the part where Hunter Thompson gets the shit kicked out of him.
As part of a class on the techniques of the new journalism• of the sixties, Hassan--without the approval or knowledge of his instructors--traveled from Florida to Kuwait and from there to Baghdad. He then used the modern mojo wire to e-mail his paper to his instructor. While he ought to get an A, it would be perfectly in keeping with the subject for him to get a failing grade.
- U.S. Teen Runs Off to Iraq by Himself
- “As a junior this year at a Pine Crest School, a prep academy of about 700 students in Fort Lauderdale, Hassan studied writers like John McPhee in the book ‘The New Journalism,’ an introduction to immersion journalism--a writer who lives the life of his subject in order to better understand it.”
- Hell’s Angels
- A piercing vision into the why of every group in the motorcycle gang scare of the sixties: outlaws and squares and cops.
- The New Journalism•
- Tom Wolfe’s unfortunately out-of-print book about the new journalism of the sixties.
- The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight•
- “Today, it’s routine for writers to go undercover to get a story; precedent for such experiential reportage really took off in the 1960s. It took outside-the-box reporters like Hunter S. Thompson to ride with the Hell’s Angels, or Tom Wolfe to drop acid with Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters, or John Sack and Michael Herr to go to Vietnam with the grunts to tell it like it really was.”
- New Journalism at Wikipedia
- “New Journalists borrowed from literary fiction: Telling the story using scenes rather than historical narrative as much as possible; Dialogue in full (Conversational speech rather than quotations and statements); Third-person point of view (from inside the head of a character); Recording everyday details (which indicates the status of character's lives).”
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