Second read : writers look back at classic works of reportage /
Marcus, James,1959-
New York : Columbia University Press,
c2012.
Introduction -- Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The tribes of America -- Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A journal of the plague year -- Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let us now praise famous men -- Robert Lipsyte on Paul Gallico's Farewell to sport -- Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent spring -- Ben Yagoda on Walter Bernstein's Keep your head down -- Evan Cornog on A. J. Liebling's The earl of Louisiana -- Ted Conover on Stanley Booth's The true adventures of the Rolling Stones -- Jack Shafer on Tom Wolfe's The electric kool-aid acid test -- Naresh Fernandes on Palagummi Sainath's Everybody loves a good drought: stories from India's poorest districts -- Chris Lehmann on Charles Raw, Bruce Page, and Godfrey Hodgson's Do you sincerely want to be rich? -- Connie Schultz on Michael Herr's Dispatches -- Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The longest day -- Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the former world -- Scott Sherman on Marshall Frady's Wallace -- Gal Beckerman on Rian Malan's My traitor's heart -- John Maxwell Hamilton on Vincent Sheean's Personal history -- Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the night -- Thomas Mallon on William Manchester's The death of a president -- Miles Corwin on Gabriel García Márquez's The story of a shipwrecked sailor -- David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching towards Bethlehem -- Justin Peters on Peter Fleming's Brazilian adventure -- Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody can do anything.
American prose literature
Reportage literature, American
Journalism