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True stories : a century of literary journalism / Norman Sims ; foreword by Ted Conover.
Van Pelt Library PS366.R44 S56 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sims, Norman.
- Series:
- Visions of the American press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reportage literature, American--History and criticism.
- Reportage literature, American.
- American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--21st century--History and criticism.
- Journalism--United States--History--20th century.
- Journalism.
- History.
- United States.
- Journalism--United States--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 398 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- 1. A true story. The long fall of one-eleven heavy / Michael Paterniti
- 2. Sketches and innovation
- 3. A generation goes traveling. Red Caucasus / John Dos Passos
- 4. The discovery of the Depression. The jumping-off place / Edmund Wilson
- 5. The bomb. The old house at home / Joseph Mitchell
- 6. Tourist in a strange land : Tom Wolfe and the new journalists. Family journeys / Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
- Notes:
- "Medill School of Journalism."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-357) and index.
- "Selected historical bibliography of literary journalism": pages 359-375.
- ISBN:
- 9780810124691
- 0810124696
- OCLC:
- 155756486
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
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