Journalism

[close] Award winning journalist and University of Nebraska Press author Katya Cengel will be answering questions from Dec. 29 2012 to Jan. 12, 2013. Her book, "Bluegrass Baseball: A Year in the Minor League Life" was rated one of the top ten non-fiction reads of 2012 by Shelf Awareness.

[close] This group is dedicated to the discussion of books in the genre called "New Journalism," or what Truman Capote called the "non-fiction novel." This style of writing became popularized in the 60's when a number of skilled writers took up its tenets: Hunter S. Thompson, Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, Joan Didion, Tom Wolfe and others.

[close] Join longform nonfiction writers Adam Piore (Newsweek) Erika Hayasaki (Los Angeles Times) and Marc Herman (Pacific Standard, The Atlantic) from June 22, 2012 to July 20, 2012 to discuss why and how they wrote successful Kindle Singles.

[close] In an attempt to continue reading amazing works and staying connected with each other and journalism, we have created this page as a means of sharing and discussing some amazing reading with each other. The beginning of the list is some books recommended by Jamilah King a dope af journalist at Mic.com but please add books/work you want to read and think others would enjoy too.