{"product_id":"literary-journalism-a-new-collection-of-the-best-american-nonfiction-9780345382221","title":"Literary Journalism: A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction","description":"Some of the best and most original prose in America today is being written by literary journalists. Memoirs and personal essays, profiles, science and nature reportage, travel writing -- literary journalists are working in all of these forms with artful styles and fresh approaches. In Literary Journalism, editors Norman Sims and Mark Kramer have collected the finest examples of literary journalism from both the masters of the genre who have been working for decades and the new voices freshly arrived on the national scene. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fifteen essays gathered here include: \u003cbr\u003e-- John McPhee's account of the battle between army engineers and the lower Mississippi River\u003cbr\u003e-- Susan Orlean's brilliant portrait of the private, imaginative world of a ten-year-old boy\u003cbr\u003e-- Tracy Kidder's moving description of life in a nursing home\u003cbr\u003e-- Ted Conover's wild journey in an African truck convoy while investigating the spread of AIDS\u003cbr\u003e-- Richard Preston's bright piece about two shy Russian mathematicians who live in Manhattan and search for order in a random universe\u003cbr\u003e-- Joseph Mitchell's classic essay on the rivermen of Edgewater, New Jersey\u003cbr\u003e-- And nine more fascinating pieces of the nation's best new writing \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the last decade this unique form of writing has grown exuberantly -- and now, in Literary Journalism, we celebrate fifteen of our most dazzling writers as they work with great vitality and astonishing variety.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norman Sims,Mark Kramer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ballantine Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/23\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 480\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 5.98w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780345382221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNorman Sims\u003c\/b\u003e taught literary journalism and other journalism courses for more than three decades at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Sims's books include \u003ci\u003eCanoes: A Natural History in North America\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTrue Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLiterary Journalism in the Twentieth Century\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the president of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies from 2014 to 2016. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Kramer\u003c\/b\u003e was writer-in-residence in the American Studies Program at Smith College (1980-1990), writer-in-residence and a professor of journalism at Boston University (1990-2001), and writer-in-residence and founding director of the Nieman Program on Narrative Journalism at Harvard University (2001-2007). He's written for \u003ci\u003ethe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other periodicals. He's coauthor of two leading textbook\/readers on narrative nonfiction: \u003ci\u003eTelling True Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiterary Journalism\u003c\/i\u003e. He's written four additional books: \u003ci\u003eMother Walter and the Pig Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThree Farms\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eInvasive Procedures\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTravels with a Hungry Bear\u003c\/i\u003e. He's currently at work on a book about writing narrative nonfiction. His website is tellingtruestories.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45069858734195,"sku":"9780345382221","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_96cc818f-ab19-4093-8eea-b9224141718f.jpg?v=1780605186","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/literary-journalism-a-new-collection-of-the-best-american-nonfiction-9780345382221","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}