The Art of Fact
Subtitle: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
Contributors: Kevin Kerrane (Editor); Ben Yagoda (Editor)
Publisher: Scribner
Published: August 3, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780684846309
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Media studies; Literature - Classics / Criticism; General; Literary Criticism; Literature: Classics; American - General; Essays; Journalism; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
Description: The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing what used to be called "new" journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to communicate powerful truth. The tradition is alive and well in stories that take us from a cantina in Los Angeles to a lesbian bar in Dublin, from a massacre in Tiananmen Square to a nonviolent revolution in the Philippines. This international emphasis links American literary journalists to their counterparts in England, Africa, and Russia.