True stories
Subtitle: a century of literary journalism
By: Norman Sims ; foreword by Ted Conover.
Contributors: Medill School of Journalism.
Series: Visions of the American press
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 398
ISBN-13: 9780810124691
Subjects: Reportage literature, American -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American prose literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism; Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Journalism -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Notes: "Medill School of Journalism."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-357) and index.

"Selected historical bibliography of literary journalism": p. 359-375.
Table of contents: title: 1. A true story. The long fall of one-eleven heavy / Michael Paterniti; title: 2. Sketches and innovation; title: 3. A generation goes traveling. Red Caucasus / John Dos Passos; title: 4. The discovery of the Depression. The jumping-off place / Edmund Wilson; title: 5. The bomb. The old house at home / Joseph Mitchell; title: 6. Tourist in a strange land : Tom Wolfe and the new journalists. Family journeys / Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.