Literary Journalism

Name: Literary Journalism
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ISBN: 9780345382221

ISBN-10: 0345382226

ISBN-13: 9780345382221

Edition: N/A

Authors: Norman Sims, Mark Kramer

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Some of the best and most original prose in America today is being written by literary journalists. Memoirs and personal essays, profiles, science and nature reportage, travel writing -- literary journalists are working in all of these forms with artful styles and fresh approaches. In Literary Journalism, editors Norman Sims and Mark Kramer have collected the finest examples of literary journalism from both the masters of the genre who have been working for decades and the new voices freshly arrived on the national scene. The fifteen essays gathered here include: -- John McPhee's account of the battle between army engineers and the lower Mississippi River -- Susan Orlean's brilliant…

Book details

List price: $15.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 5/23/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 480
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Mark Krameris director and writer-in-residence of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University. Wendy Callis a freelance writer and editor based in Seattle. She has been a Fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs in southern Mexico and a Scholar in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.



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