Norman Sims

A selection of thirteen essays by pioneers in the genre of nonfiction literature encompasses works by John McPhee, Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion, and others

The Literary Journalists

Mark Kramer

Collects fifteen essays by masters and new voices in the genre of reportage literature, including memoirs, personal essays, profiles, travel literature, and science and nature writing

A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction

Literary Journalism

This wide-ranging collection of critical essays on literary journalism addresses the shifting border between fiction and non-fiction, literature and journalism. Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century addresses general and historical issues, explores questions of authorial intent and the status of the territory between literature and journalism, and offers a case study of Mary McCarthy’s 1953 piece, "Artists in Uniform," a classic of literary journalism. Sims offers a thought-provoking study of the nature of perception and the truth, as well as issues facing journalism today.

Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century

Journalism in the twentieth century was marked by the rise of literary journalism. Sims traces more than a century of its history, examining the cultural connections, competing journalistic schools of thought, and innovative writers that have given literary journalism its power. Seminal exmples of the genre provide ample context and background for the study of this style of journalism.

A Century of Literary Journalism

True Stories

Chairman Journalism Department Norman Sims

This book offers a forum for discussion, involving the reader in what becomes an active definition of literary journalism...Lively and readable, it also concerns the very essence of literature itself, showing how writers have reshaped styles to permit passages across the borders between fact and fiction, in the process investigating what these borders might be, and if they exist at all.

Norman Sims

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