Joan Didion has long attempted to show us how to tell a story. Her particular brand of journalism is incisive yet not omniscient, sentimental but never romantic. Reading Didion, you never lose sense of her as the storyteller, and it is her voice you learn to trust. She ends her introduction to Slouc

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Ravenhill's "Shopping and Fucking' -- about a rent boy, an ecstasy dealer, and a recovering addict -- soon became "Shopping and...': English productions were forced to euphemize the title. And even in San Francisco, the United States' most tolerant city, the Magic Theater publicized the production as

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Revolutionizing journalism, Hunter S. Thompson created his own brand of reporting -- more like reportage from a cockroach's-eye-view -- with an exaggerated style that reflected the chaotic period of American history he was not just observing but living. Thompson, never a proponent of moderation, thre

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