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A Field Guide for Immersion Writing - Memoir, Journalism and Travel (Hardcover, New)
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A Field Guide for Immersion Writing - Memoir, Journalism and Travel (Hardcover, New)
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For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens
through which to better see the world at large and as a means of
exploring the self. Considering various types of participatory
writing as different strains of one style--immersion writing--Robin
Hemley offers new perspectives and practical advice for writers of
this nonfiction genre.
Immersion writing can be broken down into the broad categories of
travel writing, immersion memoir, and immersion journalism. Using
the work of such authors as Barbara Ehrenreich, Hunter S. Thompson,
Ted Conover, A. J. Jacobs, Nellie Bly, Julio Cortazar, and James
Agee, Hemley examines these three major types of immersion writing
and further identifies the subcategories of the quest, the
experiment, the investigation, the infiltration, and the
reenactment. Included in the book are helpful exercises, models for
immersion writing, and a chapter on one of the most fraught
subjects for nonfiction writers--the ethics and legalities of
writing about other people.
"A Field Guide for Immersion Writing" recalibrates and redefines
the way writers approach their relationship to their subjects.
Suitable for beginners and advanced writers, the book provides an
enlightening, provocative, and often amusing look at the ways in
which nonfiction writers engage with the world around them.
A Friends Fund Publication.
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