St. Thomas University
English 2783
The Art of Fact:
Contemporary Literary Journalism
Fall Term 2010-11
TTh 2:30
Russ Hunt
The Main Course Web Site
[Moodle
site]
The following material is available here:
Below is material no longer immediately relevant, but preserved as an archive:
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A short description of the course
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The full description of the course
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The scan of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
(the quality gets a bit better after the nearly unreadable first page)
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The PDF of the first part of In Cold Blood.
(If you're on a slow connection, it will take a while. I'd download the
whole thing and save it, so you can read it in parts without having to
wait again. Or take a memory stick to the lab, and download it there. It's
35 megabytes; quick in the lab, slow lots of other places).
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The "Assignments"
forum
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The
Forum for posting your choice of a background book and your reasons
for choosing it
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Direct links to reports on background texts
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Reading assignments as of 28 October (see Prompt
#19):
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John Hersey, Hiroshima (two copies of the 1946 book are in the HI
Library; I'll put one on two-day reserve. There is a full text of the book
on line, but in a not-very-readable courier typeface, here.
I've also put the first three sections of the article as it appeared in
The
New Yorker (August 31, 1946) on the Web site, here.
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John McPhee, "Oranges," part one, as published
in The New Yorker (May 7, 1966), as a *.pdf That volume of
the magazine may be available in the library; if it is, I'll have it put
on reserve on Friday.
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Ted Conover, Newjack:
Guarding Sing Sing (I could not find an accessible copy of Rolling
Nowhere, and since this one, which we agreed was an alternative,
was right there in the library as an e-text . . . I'm also putting the
hard copy on two-day reserve (it will be there Friday).
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Tom Wolfe, The
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (from the "scribd" site; the library
hard copy will be on two-day reserve on Friday)
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Reading for December 7: Peter
Boyer's "The Genius of Death Row"
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The list of background texts about literary
journalism
To other courses
taught by Russ Hunt
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