Truman Capote's 'Frank Sinatra Has A Cold'

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New Journalism New journalism is an alternative way of describing reality. It is a more interesting way of telling the reader facts and bearing news or describing people or situations. The difference is the techniques that are normally used for fictional writing. The writers that are using new journalism are able to engage and excite their readers both ineffectually and emotionally. “The village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansas call “out there.” Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far Western than Middle West”.(p. 4) This paragraph is from Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” and it shows us an example how new journalism is used to involve the reader in the story. If the reader didn’t know before reading the text that it was a creative non-fictional work, then the reader would easily mistaken it for a fictional text. Mr. Herbert William Clutter is the main person of the story, Capote uses…show more content…
The article is one of the seminal works of new journalism. The text begins with Sinatra in a private club in Hollywood and he is stressed about everything happening in his life. It is obvious that Gay Talese had some contacts that led him all the information of Frank Sinatra to understand all the details about Frank Sinatra’s personality. “It is a characteristic that Sinatra, without admission, seems to prefer: All The Way; All or Nothing at All. This is the Sicilian in Sinatra; he permits his friends, if they wish to remain that, none of the easy Anglo-Saxon outs. But if they remain loyal, then there is nothing Sinatra will not do in turn - fabulous gifts, personal kindness, encouragement when they’re down, adulation when they’re up. They are wise to remember, however, one thing. He is Sinatra. The boss. Il
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