English 2783
The Art of Fact: Contemporary Literary Journalism
Russ Hunt
Fall 2013

Some relevant texts

In the library:

Anderson, Chris. Literary Nonfiction: Theory, Criticism, Pedagogy. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1989. [PS366 .R44 L58 1989]

-----. Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction. Southern Illinois University Press, 1987. [PS366 .R44 A5 1987]

Conboy, Martin. Journalism: A Critical History. London: Sage, 2004. [Electronic Resource]

Foley, Barbara. Telling the Truth: the Theory and Practice of Documentary Fiction. Cornell University Press, 1986. [PS374 .N6 F58 1986]

Glass, Ira. ed. The New Kings of Nonfiction. Riverhead Books, 2007. [PS659.2 .N49 2007]

Gutkind, Lee, ed. The Best Creative Nonfiction. Volume 1. W. W. Norton, 2007. [PS659.2 .B473]

Hartsock, John C. A History of American Literary Journalism: the Emergence of a Modern Narrative Form. University of Massachusetts, 2000. [PS366 .R44 H37 2000] 

Hellman, John. Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as New Fiction. University of Illinois Press, 1981. [PS369 .H44]

Hollowell, John. Fact & Fiction: the New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel. University of North Carolina Press, 1977. [PS374 .N6 H6 1977]

Lounsberry, Barbara. The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction. Greenwood Press, 1990. [PS369 .L68 1990]

Keeble, Richard. The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter. Routledge, 2007. [PR1285 .J66 2007]

Mills, Nicolaus, ed. The New Journalism: a Historical Anthology. McGraw-Hill, 1974. [PN4726 .M5] 

Sims, Norman. True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism (Medill Visions of the American Press). Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2007. [PS366 .R44 S56 2007]

Vaughn, Stephen L. Encyclopedia of American Journalism. Routledge, 2008. [PN4855 .E53 2008]

Weber, Ronald. The Literature of Fact: Literary Nonfiction in American Writing. Columbus: Ohio University Press, 1980. [PS369 .W4]


To be Located

Berner, R. Thomas. Literary Newswriting: the Death of an Oxymoron. Columbia, SC: Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, 1986.

Boynton, Robert. The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft. New York: Vintage Books, 2005.

Chance, Jean, and William McKeen, eds. Literary Journalism: a Reader. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Thomson Learning, 2001.

Connery, Thomas Bernard. A Sourcebook of American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre. New York: Greenwood Press, 1992.

Davis, Lennard J.  Factual Fictions: The Origins of the English Novel.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1983.

Dennis, Everette E., and William L. Rivers. Other Voices: The New Journalism in America. San Francisco: Canfield Press, 1974.

Fletcher, Angus, ed. The Literature of Fact: Selected Papers from the English Institute. New York: Columbia University Press, 1976.

Flippen, Charles C. Liberating the Media: The New Journalism. Washington, Acropolis Books, 1974.

Ford, Edwin H. A Bibliography of Literary Journalism in America. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Company, 1937.

Frus, Phyllis. the Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative: The Timely and the Timeless. Cambridge [England]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Gutkind, Lee. the Essayist at Work: Profiles of Creative Nonfiction Writers. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998.

Johnson, Michael L. The New Journalism: The Underground Press, the Artists of Nonfiction, and Changes in the Established Media. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1971.

Kerrane, Kevin, and Ben Yagoda, eds. The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology Of Literary Journalism. New York: Scribner, 1997. OR: New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998 [?!].

Kitchen, Judith. Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton, 2005.

Kitchen, Judith, and Mary Paumier Jones, eds. In Short: a Collection Of Brief Creative Nonfiction. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.

Lehman, Daniel W. Matters of Fact: Reading Nonfiction over the Edge. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1997.

Malcolm, Janet. The Journalist and the Murderer. New York: Knopf: Distributed by Random House, 1990.

Murphy, James Emmett. The New Journalism: A critical perspective. [Lexington, Ky.]: Association for Education in Journalism, 1974.

Remnick, David. Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Sims, Norman. Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

-----. The Literary Journalists. New York: Ballantine Books, 1984.

-----, and Mark Kramer, eds. Literary Journalism: A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction. New York: Ballantine Books, 1995.

Weber, Ronald. The Reporter as Artist: A Look at the New Journalism Controversy. New York, Hastings House 1974.

Weingarten, Marc. The Gang That Wouldn't Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, Capote, and the New Journalism Revolution. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2005.

Williford, Lex, and Michael Martone, eds. Touchstone Anthology of Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: Work from 1970 to the Present. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Winship, Thomas. a Plea for Literary Journalism. Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona, 1985.

Winterowd, W. Ross. the Rhetoric of the "Other" Literature. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1990


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