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Title True stories : a century of literary journalism / Norman Sims ; foreword by Ted Conover.
Author Sims, Norman.
Publication Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2007.
Description xxiii, 398 pages ; 21 cm.
Call # 818 S
Series Visions of the American press
Visions of the American press.
Note "Medill School of Journalism."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-357) and index.
"Selected historical bibliography of literary journalism": p. 359-375.
Contents 1. A true story. The long fall of one-eleven heavy / Michael Paterniti -- 2. Sketches and innovation -- 3. A generation goes traveling. Red Caucasus / John Dos Passos -- 4. The discovery of the Depression. The jumping-off place / Edmund Wilson -- 5. The bomb. The old house at home / Joseph Mitchell -- 6. Tourist in a strange land : Tom Wolfe and the new journalists. Family journeys / Adrian Nicole LeBlanc.
Subject Reportage literature, American -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American prose literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
Journalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Journalism -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Addl. Author Medill School of Journalism.
ISBN 9780810124691 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0810124696 (pbk. : alk. paper) :

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