English 2783 The Art of Fact: Contemporary Literary Journalism
Russ Hunt
Fall 2013
Monday 7:00 - 9:45
Opening list of potential sources
These, in particular order, are taken as directly as possible from
the emails I received. You need to choose one to pursue.
Instructions for making your choice are in Prompt
#5.
Women in American Journalism by Jan Whitt (available from UNB
library stacks)
International Literary Journalism in Three Dimensions from World
Literature Today (Spring 2012)
Matthew Ricketson's book, Australian Journalism Today. [discussed on
editia.com by Charlotte Harper, August 28, 2012]
<http://editia.com/what-is-longform-journalism/>
The Art of Fact by Barbara Lounsberry, published on April 9, 1990 by
Praeger Publishing
Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century by Norman Sims,
published November 4, 2008 by Northwestern University Press
Wolfe, Tom. "The Birth of 'The New Journalism'; Eyewitness Report by
Tom Wolfe. New York Magazine, February 14th 1972.
<http://nymag.com/news/media/47353/>
Boynton, Robert. The New New Journalism: conversations with
America's best nonfiction writers on their craft. Random House
Digital, Inc., 2007.
Robert Root, Michael Steinberg, and Sonya Huber. The Fourth Genre :
Contemporary Writers of/on Creative Nonfiction, 6th ed. 2011
Campbell, Deborah. "Can Journalism Be Art?" DeborahCampbell.org.
N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Sept. 2013.
<http://deborahcampbell.org/writing/cultural-affairs/can-journalism-be-art/>.
An essay by Dr. Martin Hirst, “What is Gonzo? The etymology of an
urban legend,” published by the University of Queensland, Australia
on January 19, 2004 (full essay is available free online at
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:10764).
“Lifespan of a Fact,” (published in 2012 in “The Believer.” The
essay is also available in paperback from Amazon) an essay by John
D’Agata, with fact-checking by Jim Fingal
by William Bradley and is tiled The Ethical Exhibitionist's and
published by College English, v70 n2 p202-211 in November 2007
by Lynn Z. Bloom and is tiled Living to Tell the Tale: The
Complicated Ethics of Creative Nonfiction published by College
English, v65 n3 p276-89 in January 2003.
Literary Reportage, *NYU Journalism Institute web site, no
publication date or author
The New, Old Journalism / Narrative writing in contemporary
newspapers /Jane Johnston and Caroline Graham /P. 517-533
Narrative and Paradigmatic Thinking Styles in Creative Writing and
Journalism Students. James C Kaufman Article found on Google Scholar
Challenges:
I don't usually think it worth following up or quoting from
individual blogs. One, however, found by a couple of people,
contains this text: "here is the abstract of my article 'Literary
Journalism: the intersection of literature and journalism that was
published in 2004 in Acta Neophilologica.'" The last name of the
author doesn't appear, as far as I can see, on her blog, but her
first name is Sonja. This entry is from 2007.
<http://findyourvoice-sonja.blogspot.ca/2007/05/i-promised-to-b5-that-i-will-try-to.html>
Another individual blog is by Constance Hale, who says, "I’ve taught
narrative journalism at Harvard, organized conferences on the
subject, written criticism about it, and practiced it for more than
20 years." while you'd never cite the blog entry, it's pretty clear
that it would be possible to find published work by her. Start here:
<http://sinandsyntax.com/talking-story/narrative-journalism/>
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