Capote. Mailer. Didion. Wolfe. These literary lions burst the conventions of traditional journalism, helping invent a "new journalism" through their storytelling that forever changed the way we look at our culture. Check out these books to read more:
The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight (the story of New Journalism)
The Art of Fact (anthology)Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe
Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion