false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174341833m/383269.jpg 383269 1 Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda, journalists and journalism teachers, saw a need for a textbook that celebrated and organized outstanding examples of literary journalism. In this compendious volume spanning 372 years, the editors focus on the evolution of New Journalism, a term which, we learn, "was originally coined by Matthew Arnold in 1887 to describe the style of Stead's <I>Pall Mall Gazette</I>: brash, vivid, personal, reform-minded, and--occasionally, from Arnold's conservative viewpoint--'featherbrained.'" <P> The editors position Daniel Defoe's <I>The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild</I> (1725) as the prototype for the true-crime narrative. The collection's first section, entitled "Pioneers," includes such staples as Boswell's <I>Life of Samuel Johnson</I>, Walt Whitman's <I>Specimen Days</I>, and Jack London's daring 1902 exposé of life among the city of London's impoverished East Enders. Brief introductions to each selection set the historical context and explain innovative aspects of the piece. The second section compares two distinctly contemporary journalistic points of view: the "I Am a Camera" school and the unabashedly subjective approach exemplified by Norman Mailer and Hunter S. Thompson, among others. "Style as Substance" makes up the lively and often moving third section. <P> Many rich voices describe all angles of the human experience in this impressive volume. Through author Piers Paul Read we crash-land with a Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes; Lillian Ross gives us a notoriously devastating portrait of Ernest Hemingway; Ted Conover assimilates into illegal Mexican culture and smuggles us back and forth across the border. The only anthology of its kind, <I>The Art of Fact</I> almost doubles as a travel book. 373034 3 8 1998 The ART OF FACT: A HISTORICAL ANTHOLOGY OF LITERARY JOURNALISM total:47|5:22|4:18|3:6|2:1|1:0| 47 202 71 4 0 0 false false Fri Jun 26 10:04:09 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 10:05:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sat Sep 05 09:30:21 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 09:31:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Tue Aug 19 20:24:58 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 19 20:26:19 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sun Feb 24 11:34:54 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 11:35:42 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Oct 06 13:48:34 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 13:48:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Oct 05 23:02:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 23:02:57 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Oct 01 14:57:09 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 14:57:09 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Oct 23 08:20:46 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 10 08:22:49 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 23 08:20:46 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 24 07:17:14 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 07:17:14 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jun 22 11:15:03 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 11:15:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 27 19:44:25 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 19:44:25 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Feb 17 18:59:53 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 18:59:53 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Feb 05 16:20:46 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 16:20:46 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 06:26:15 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 06:26:15 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Thu Jan 22 06:32:09 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 06:32:09 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Mon Jan 12 19:15:23 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 12 19:15:23 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jan 08 14:47:46 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 08 14:47:46 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jan 06 09:59:46 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 06 09:59:46 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 04 23:21:36 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 23:21:36 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Dec 29 12:40:51 -0800 2008 Mon Dec 29 12:40:51 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=383269