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Second Read - Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage (Paperback)
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Second Read - Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage (Paperback)
Series: Columbia Journalism Review Books
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The Columbia Journalism Review's Second Read series features
distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage.
Launched in 2004 by John Palattella, who was then editor of the
magazine's book section, the series also allows authors address
such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and
accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for
reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations
of participatory journalism, and the temptation to substitute
"truthiness" for hard, challenging fact. Representing a wide range
of views, Second Read embodies the diversity and dynamism of
contemporary nonfiction while offering fresh perspectives on works
by Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Rachel Carson, and Gabriel Garcia
Marquez, among others. It also highlights pivotal moments and
movements in journalism as well as the innovations of award-winning
writers. Essays include Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's The Tribes
of America; Nicholson Baker on Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the
Plague Year; Dale Maharidge on James Agee's Let Us Now Praise
Famous Men; Marla Cone on Rachel Carson's Silent Spring; Ben Yagoda
on Walter Bernstein's Keep Your Head Down; Ted Conover on Stanley
Booth's The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones; Jack Shafer on
Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test; Connie Schultz on
Michael Herr's Dispatches; Michael Shapiro on Cornelius Ryan's The
Longest Day; Douglas McCollam on John McPhee's Annals of the Former
World; Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's Armies of the Night; Thomas
Mallon on William Manchester's The Death of a President; Miles
Corwin on Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Story of a Shipwrecked
Sailor; David Ulin on Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem; and
Claire Dederer on Betty MacDonald's Anybody Can Do Anything.
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