Second read [electronic resource] : writers look back at classic works of reportage / edited by James Marcus and the staff of the Columbia Journalism Review.
"[...] Distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. The authors address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations of participatory...
| Uniform Title: | Columbia journalism review books.
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Columbia journalism review books.
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Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The tribes of America -- Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year -- Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let us now praise famous men -- Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to sport -- Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent spring -- Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep your head down -- Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling's The earl of Louisiana -- Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The true adventures of the Rolling Stones -- Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The electric kool-aid acid test -- Naresh Fernandes on Palagummi Sainath's Everybody loves a good drought: stories from India's poorest districts -- Chris Lehmann on Charles Raw, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson's Do you sincerely want to be rich? -- Connie Schultz on Michael Herr's Dispatches -- Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The longest day -- Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the former world -- Scott Sherman on Marshall Frady's Wallace -- Gal Beckerman on Rian Malan's My traitor's heart -- John Maxwell Hamilton on Vincent Sheean's Personal history -- Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the night -- Thomas Mallon on William Manchester's The death of a president -- Miles Corwin on Gabriel García Márquez's The story of a shipwrecked sailor -- David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching towards Bethlehem -- Justin Peters on Peter Fleming's Brazilian adventure -- Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody can do anything. | |
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