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- Excerpt: Mediating the Real: Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage by Pascal Sigg
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Pascal Sigg’s book Mediating the Real: Self-Reflection in Recent American Reportage (Transcript Publishing, 2024). Authors who would like to promote their books of or about literary journalism in the newsletter can email us at literaryjournalismsubmissions [at] gmail.com. In 2007, the writer David Foster Wallace described contemporary… - New Edition of “Reading Narrative Journalism” Launched
As some of you have already heard, I’ve recently launched a new edition of my online digital resource, Reading Narrative Journalism (2024), which has been designed as an introduction and multimedia resource for undergraduates and beginning graduate students (with a few thoughts for teachers thrown in). The site has been updated to include more writers, a slightly fuller… - “Girl Reporter”: Tracking intergenerational trauma through the story of Eva Sommer, the inaugural winner of Australia’s first national journalism prize
In 1956, Eva Sommer, 22, won the first-ever Walkley Award, Australia’s equivalent of the Pulitzers, for her article about a stowaway with amnesia and no identification papers. Sommer discovered he was 26-year-old Jacob Bresler, a Jewish immigrant and Australian citizen, accomplishing in days what the authorities had failed to do in months. But when she… - CFP: Proposed Volume on Literary Journalism/Creative Nonfiction in East-Central EuropeAbstracts are invited for a proposed collection on Literary Journalism/Creative Non-Fiction in East-Central Europe. The volume takes as its central concern the current shapes and forms of what is variously called literary journalism, creative non-fiction, creative documentary narrative, or reportage (among other terms) in the region. We have already received preliminary interest from an academic…
- Star-Studded Panels Featured at IALJS at AEJMC Washington, DC
In early August, IALJS sessions at the annual AEJMC sparkled with insight on two panels featuring a mix of accomplished world-class scholars. Washington, DC was the site of last year’s conference, which hosted two full sessions dedicated to the theme of “The Art of Fact in Science and Nature Writing.” The sessions marked the last… - New Book: “Seeking to Understand the World: Literary Journalism of Vincent Sheean” by Anish Dave
Vincent Sheean was a paradigmatic American foreign correspondent in 1930s and 1940s. He won the inaugural National Book Award for biography for his 1935 book Personal History. The book became a model for many other contemporary foreign correspondents who wrote their own personal accounts of their journalistic experiences. When Sheean died in 1975, the New York Times published… - Second Call: Join Us in Creating an Interactive Map of Global Literary JournalismAuthors’ Note: We have received some great responses, and we’re beginning the process of compiling our bibliography. In the meantime, we’d like to renew our call for your help in moving this project forward. Thanks! Manuel Carvalho Coutinho and I (Fitz) are currently embarking on an ambitious project and we need your help! We are…
- Excerpt: Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York by Jordana Cox
The following is an excerpt from the introduction of Jordana Cox’s book Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project’s Living Newspapers in New York (University of Massachusetts, 2023). Authors who would like to promote their books of or about literary journalism in the newsletter can email us at literaryjournalismsubmissions [at] gmail.com. Not many people can say… - The priceless happiness that comes with $250
It was the night of a cold winter day—February 6, 2023. I was at home in Eskişehir, Turkey. The night had turned to frost. Suddenly, at 4:21 a.m., the phone rang pathetically. It was very late; I was scared. I felt as if I was about to hear some bad news. The person on the… - Looking ahead to “the wondrous glory of the everlasting stars” at IALJS 18 in Sydney, Australia
Willa McDonald, Matthew Ricketson and I could not be more thrilled to be together organizing IALJS-18 in 2024. It is more than 14 long years that we have battled to get on the IALJS annual conference roster. We understand that for many, we live and work on the other side of the world, and with… - Excerpt: How the News Feels by Jonathan D. Fitzgerald
The following is a short excerpt from the introduction of Fitz’s new book, How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023). Authors who would like to promote their books of or about literary journalism in the newsletter can email us at literaryjournalismsubmissions [at] gmail.com. Literary Journalists’ Empathic Power… - Join Us in Creating an Interactive Map of Global Literary Journalism
Manuel Carvalho Coutinho and I (Fitz) are currently embarking on an ambitious project and we need your help! We are putting together a list of works of literary journalism from around the world with the objective of creating a database and, later on, an interactive world map that would be freely accessed to anyone interested… - Details, emotions, and the multidimensional world of Polish literary journalism
Before deep diving into the universe of Polish literary journalism, stop for a moment and ask yourself a question: What first comes to mind when you think about Polish literary journalism? How does it look? How does it sound? Or maybe, how does it feel? Today I would like to invite you to the magical and… - From the Archives: Dispatches from Centerville, USA
A journalist seeks out the heart(s) of America. We were supposed to be better than this. That thought kept running through my head after the 2016 election. I simply couldn’t believe that the country I was born and raised in, the country that took in my Venezuelan immigrant mother, was really as angry, as caustic,… - Marvelous Views and Heroic History: Welcome to Gdańsk
By Anna Merchel and Aleksandra Wierzbowska Welcome to the city of Gdańsk – the fourth largest metropolitan area in Poland with 262 km2 located on the Baltic coast in the northern part of the country. Gdańsk is a city with a history dating back more than a thousand years and breathtaking places worth every minute of…
From the Archives
IALJS Newsletter March 2021Below each issue of the IALJS newsletter are commendable examples of literary journalism, some of which may be mentioned in the issue.
- March 2021 Issue (Vol. 15, No. 1)
- October 2020 Issue (Vol. 14, No. 2)
- Spring 2020 Issue (Vol. 14, No. 1)
- Fall 2019 Issue (Vol. 13, No. 2)
- Spring 2019 Issue (Vol. 13, No. 1)
- Fall 2018 Issue (Vol. 12, No. 4)
- Summer 2018 Issue (Vol. 12, No. 3)
- Spring 2018 Issue (Vol. 12, No. 2)
- Winter 2018 Issue (Vol. 12, No. 1)
- Fall 2017 Issue (Vol. 11, No. 4)
- Brooks’s “Mis-Educating the Young“
- Rosenbaum’s “Magazines, Bring Back the Write-Around!“
- Summer 2017 Issue (Vol. 11, No. 3)
- Roiland’s “It Was Like Nothing Else“
- Huber’s “Being White in Philly“
- Spring 2017 Issue (Vol. 11, No. 2)
- Roiland’s “A Shot in the Arm“
- Packer’s “The Lesson of Tal Afar“
- Glasser’s “Covering Politics in Post-Truth America“
- Winter 2017 Issue (Vol. 11, No. 1)
- Friend’s “Adding a Zero“
- Wolfe’s “A City Built of Clay“
- Fall 2016 Issue (Vol. 10, No. 4)
- Heller’s “The Big Uneasy“
- Wolfe’s “The Origins of Speech“
- Summer 2016 Issue (Vol. 10, No. 3)
- Cassidy’s “Mastering the Machine“
- Mendelson’s “In the Depths of the Digital Age“
- Spring 2016 Issue (Vol. 10, No. 2)
- Kirn’s “Lost in the Meritocracy“
- Halpern’s “In the Depths of the Net“
- Winter 2016 Issue (Vol. 10, No. 1)
- Bellafante’s “Reviving the Village Voice“
- Tomasky’s “Trump“
- Fall 2015 Issue (Vol. 9, No. 4)
- Heller’s “The Cranky Wisdom of Peter Kaplan“
- Malcolm’s “The Master Writer of the City“
- Summer 2015 Issue (Vol. 9, No. 3)
- Taibbi’s “The Great American Bubble Machine“
- Trillin’s “Covering the Cops“
- Spring 2015 Issue (Vol. 9, No. 2)
- DeFord’s “All America, All the Way“
- Beard’s “Diary“
- Winter 2015 Issue (Vol. 9, No. 1)
- Cooper’s “Ebola’s Cultural Casualty“
- Mead’s “The Troll Slayer“
- Fall 2014 Issue (Vol. 8, No. 4)
- Shorto’s “How to Think Like the Dutch“
- Berryhill’s “Max Soffar’s Last Appeal“
- Summer 2014 Issue (Vol. 8, No. 3)
- Friend’s “Thicker Than Water“
- Hess’ “Why Women Aren’t Welcome on the Internet“
- Spring 2014 Issue (Vol. 8, No. 2)
- Fish’s “Scholarship and Politics“
- Klein’s “Baghdad Year Zero“
- Winter 2014 Issue (Vol. 8, No. 1)
- Purdum’s “It Came From Wasilla“
- Tynan’s “Salto Mortale“
- Yang’s “Paper Tigers“
- Fall 2013 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 4)
- Summer 2013 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 3)
- Packer’s “The Broken Contract“
- Kirns’ “Confessions of an Ex-Mormon“
- Cunningham’s “Cause and Effect“
- Spring 2013 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 2)
- Colloff’s “The Innocent Man, Part I“
- Colloff’s “The Innocent Man, Part II“
- Remnick’s “Bruce Springsteen at 62“
- Winter 2013 Issue (Vol. 7, No. 1)
- Gladwell’s “The Order of Things“
- Macfarquahar’s “Outside Agitator“
- Fall 2012 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 4)
- Campbell’s “Iran’s Quiet Revolution“
- Freeland’s “The Rise of the New Global Elite“
- Filkins’ “The Deep State“
- Summer 2012 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 3)
- Hessler’s “Dr. Don“
- Boyers’ “A Beauty“
- Franzen’s “Farther Away“
- Spring 2012 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 2)
- Lightman’s “The Accidental Universe“
- Seabrook’s “Crunch“
- Wang’s “Paper Tigers“
- Winter 2012 Issue (Vol. 6, No. 1)
- Pressler’s “It’s Good to Be Michael Lewis“
- Hagen’s “Tweet Science“
- Williams’ “Ten Things to Do Before This Article Is Finished“
- Fall 2011 Issue (Vol. 5, No. 4)
- Hitchens’ “Topic of Cancer“
- McPhee’s “Spin Right and Shoot Left“
- Rosenbaum’s “Shakespeare in Rewrite“
- Wallace’s “Federer as Religious Experience“
- Summer 2011 Issue (Vol. 5, No. 3)
- Heffernan’s “Anchor Woman“
- Packer’s “Dickens in Lagos“
- Rice’s “Miss Grundy Was Fired Today“
- Spring 2011 Issue (Vol. 5, No. 2)
- McPhee’s “Checkpoints“
- Rosenbaum’s “Stumpy Versus Lucille“
- Winter 2011 Issue (Vol. 5, No. 1)
- Mamet’s “Driver’s Ed“
- Malcolm’s “Iphegenia in Forest Hills“
- Fall 2010 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 4)
- Burns’ “What Cats Know About War“
- Hastings’ “The Runaway General“
- The Economist‘s “Pushtunwali: Honour Among Them“
- Summer 2010 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 3)
- Dickens’ “On Duty With Inspector Fields“
- Chivers’ “When Afghans Seek Medical Aid, Tough Choices for U.S.“
- Spring 2010 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 2)
- Williams’ “Finding Dolly Freed“
- Paterniti’s “Eating Jack Hooker’s Cow“
- Winter 2010 Issue (Vol. 4, No. 1)
- DeGregory’s “The Girl in the Window“
- Fall 2009 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 4)
- Crane’s “In the Depths of a Coal Mine“
- Grunberg’s “On Armies, War and an Aging Israel“
- Jones’ “The Things That Carried Him“
- Junod’s “The Loved Ones“
- Konigsberg’s “Prairie Fire“
- Summer 2009 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 3)
- Buford’s “Carnal Knowledge“
- French’s “Angels & Demons“
- Malan’s “AIDS in Africa“
- Wright’s “The Killer Elite“
- Spring 2009 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 2)
- Legge’s “Clubland“
- Winter 2009 Issue (Vol. 3, No. 1)
- Boo’s “Swamp Nurse“
- Tosches’ “If You Knew Sushi“
- Fall 2008 Issue (Vol. 2, No. 4)
- Raghavan’s “Anguish in the Ruins of Mutanabi Street“
- Summer 2008 Issue (Vol. 2, No. 3)
- Blais’ “In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle“
- Preston’s “The Mountains of Pi“
- Spring 2008 Issue (Vol. 2, No. 2)
- Paterniti’s “Driving Mr. Albert“
- Winter 2008 Issue (Vol. 2, No. 1)
- Sheeler’s “Final Salute“
- Tietz’s “The Boy Who Loved Transit“
- Fall 2007 Issue (Vol. 1, No. 2)
- Hull’s “A Better Life“
- Boo’s “The Marriage Cure“
- Summer 2007 Issue (Vol. 1, No. 1)
- Anderson’s “Prisoners of War“
- Langewiesche’s “City of Fear“
- Paterniti’s “The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy“