Literary journalism in the twentieth century
By: edited by Norman Sims ; foreword by John C. Hartsock.
Contributors: Sims, Norman.
Edition: Northwestern University Press ed.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780810125193
Subjects: American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Reportage literature, American -- History and criticism; Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A third way to tell the story : American literary journalism at the turn of the century / Thomas B. Connery; title: Hemingway's permanent records / Ronald Weber; title: The mother of literature : journalism and The grapes of wrath / William Howarth; title: Joseph Mitchell and The New Yorker nonfiction writers / Norman Sims; title: The politics of the new journalism / John J. Pauly; title: The borderlands of culture : writing by W.E.B. Du Bois, James Agee, Tillie Olsen, and Gloria Anzaldúa / Shelley Fisher Fishkin; title: The politics of the plain style / Hugh Kenner; title: The new journalism and the image-world / David Eason; title: John McPhee balances the act / Kathy Smith; title: Artists in uniform ; Settling the colonel's hash / Mary McCarthy; title: Unsettling the colonel's hash : "fact" in autobiography / Darrel Mansell.