| Description |
viii, 467 pages : portraits ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
The Art of Literary Journalism / Norman Sims -- Breakable Rules for Literary Journalists / Mark Kramer -- The Rivermen / Joseph Mitchell -- First Family of Astoria / Calvin Trillin -- The American Man at Age Ten / Susan Orlean -- The Mountains of Pi / Richard Preston -- A Family Portrait in Black & White / Walt Harrington -- Mr. Bellow's Planet / Brent Staples -- Strawberries Under Ice / David Quammen -- Trina and Trina / Adrian Nicole Leblanc -- The Ga-Ga Years / Joseph Nocera -- Predilections / Mark Singer -- The Road Is Very Unfair: Trucking Across Africa in the Age of AIDS / Ted Conover -- Access / Mark Kramer -- Memory / Tracy Kidder -- Fernande Pelletier / Jane Kramer -- Atchafalaya / John McPhee |
| Summary |
Some of the best and most original prose in America today is being written by literary journalists. Memoirs and personal essays, profiles, science and nature reportage, travel writingliterary journalists are working in all of these forms with artful styles and fresh approaches. In Literary Journalism, editors Norman Sims and Mark Kramer have collected the finest examples of literary journalism from both the masters of the genre who have been working for decades and the new voices freshly arrived on the national scene |
| Analysis |
English literature Criticism |
| Subject |
American essays.
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American prose literature -- 20th century.
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Journalism -- United States.
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Reportage literature, American.
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| Author |
Kramer, Mark (Mark William), 1944-
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Sims, Norman.
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| LC no. |
94096759 |
| ISBN |
0345382226 |
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