Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage (Columbia Journalism Review)
Let us now praise forgotten nonfiction. It is the fate of great journalism, perhaps, to fade away just a few decades after appearing. Yet that leaves for us the pleasures of rediscovery, which the essays collected inSecond Readbring off in superb style.(Thomas Frank, author ofThe Wrecking CrewandWhat's the Matter with Kansas?)A book of journalism about books of journalism that are worth reading twice? The essays here honor their subject in the best possible way: they are so good, so rich, and so finely written, they deserve to be read again.(David Hajdu, music critic forThe New Republicand professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism)contemporary journalists offer fresh looks at the work of previous generations in this rich collection.Daily News(Daily News)Second Readcarries value for any writer, whether oft-published or a novice or in between.(Steve WeinbergWriter)