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Title: The ART OF FACT: A HISTORICAL ANTHOLOGY OF LITERARY JOURNALISM by Kevin. Kerrane, Ben. Yagoda ISBN: 0-684-84630-6 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 03 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best survey of non-fiction and its development I've seen
Comment: As a writer of non-fiction, I'm grateful to the editors of this book. It's the best and most complete survey of the development of non-fiction writing I've found, reaching back to Defoe for examples of techniques we've come to think of as recent developments non-fiction reporting, and moving through the "new journalism" writers to contemporary writers such as Ted Conover and Michael Winerip. The editors have written elegant prefaces not only to the book but to each of the dozens of writers included,giving biographical information, historical context, and information on the writing they've chosen to include (why they chose an early Hemingway column from the Toronto Star, for instance; the importance of Joseph Mitchell's profile on a bearded lady as opposed to his more well-known pieces). I would have liked to have seen something from Ian Frazier's Great Plains or Janet Malcolm's meditation on the art and impossibility of objective biography The Silent Woman, both of which push the craft of non-fiction writing into original territory. Nonetheless, this is a great book for students of non-fiction, non-fiction writers and especially for teachers of non-fiction. And as a collection of great writing, it's also great reading.
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Title: Literary Journalism by NORMAN SIMS, MARK KRAMER ISBN: 0345382226 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 23 May, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Writing for Story: Craft Secrets of Dramatic Nonfiction by a Two-Time Pulitzer Prize Winner by Jon Franklin ISBN: 0452272955 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Writing Creative Nonfiction: Instruction and Insights from Teachers of the Associated Writing Programs by Carolyn Forche, Philip Gerard, Associated Writing Programs ISBN: 1884910505 Publisher: Story Pr Pub. Date: May, 2001 List Price(USD): $18.99 |
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Title: A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form by John C. Hartsock ISBN: 1558492526 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Up River: The Story of a Maine Fishing Community (Library of New England) by Olive Pierce, Carolyn Chute ISBN: 0874517567 Publisher: University Press of New England Pub. Date: 15 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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