Insights on Literary Journalism

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Kevin M. Lerner is Associate Professor of Journalism and Chair of the Department of Communication, Marist College, USA.

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Bringing together ten chapters by some of the most important scholars of literary journalism around the world, this book covers a range of topics that are key to understanding the role of literary journalism as both a practice and as a topic of academic study.

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List of Contributors

Introduction: The Old Journalism
Kevin M. Lerner

Part I: What is Literary Journalism?

Chapter 1: What Counts as Literary Journalism? A Case Study of The Wire
Roberta S. Maguire and Miles Maguire

Chapter 2: Fields of Activity versus Genres in Literary Journalism: The Case of Comics Journalism in Brazil
Augusto Paim

Chapter 3: When Sources become Characters: Definers of Reality in Literary Journalism
Mateus Yuri Passos

Part II: Storytellers and Subjects in Literary Journalism

Chapter 4: Helping to Give a Subject Their Voice: The Crafted Interview and Environmental Conservation Workers
Christina Yin

Chapter 5: Advocacy, Ethics, and Objectivity: How Literary Journalism Addresses Moral Discomfort in the Reportage of Gender-Based Violence
Julie Wheelwright

Chapter 6: Making Their Place on the Bus: The Campaign Reportage of Nora Ephron, Gloria Steinem, and Joan Didion
Lori Amber Roessner

Part III: Literary Journalism and the Public Sphere

Chapter 7: Journalists without Borders: Paul McGeough and War Reporting from the Front
Lindsay Morton

Chapter 8: Attitudes toward Authority: Profiling Celebrity Environmentalists in Style
Christine Isager

Part IV: Literary Journalism and the Future of the Field

Chapter 9: Measuring Value: Student Perceptions of Literary Journalism's Potential to Promote a Liberal Education
Jeffrey C. Neely

Afterword
Bill Reynolds

Index