Harlan Ellison kept a pair of Game Warden boots that this person accosted him over wearing at a San Francisco bar. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this person described in a Gay Talese profile for Esquire as “Picasso without paint” when a cold threatens his ability to perform.
ANSWER: Frank Sinatra [or Francis Albert Sinatra; accept “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold”]
[10e] The subjective and literary descriptions in Talese’s profile helped pioneer the “New” style of this nonfiction genre, which Hunter S. Thompson published a “gonzo” style of in magazines like Rolling Stone.
ANSWER: journalism [accept New Journalism; accept gonzo journalism]
[10m] This New Journalist described the Doors and other rock stars as trying to “hang on to the innocence and turbulence and capacity for wonder” amidst drug addiction in her collection The White Album. She also wrote Slouching Towards Bethlehem.
ANSWER: Joan Didion
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