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  1. Lindsey Hilsum _ In Extremis: The Life and

    In a Sunday Times piece entitled "Courage Knows No Gender," she quoted Martha Gellhorn, who said, "Feminists nark me. I think they've done a terrible disservice to women, branding us as 'women's writers.' Nobody says men writers; before, we were all simply writers.
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  2. Lindsey Hilsum _ In Extremis: The Life and

    Hersey, however, was no fan of the fashionable "New Journalism" practiced by writers such as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe. The concept of the nonfiction novel, a term coined by Truman Capote to describe In Cold Blood, his best-selling 1966 book about a murder in Kansas, was, in Hersey's view, dangerous. Making things up, as novelists do, would undermine the reader's belief in journalism, which had to remain pure.
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