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Chile — A Country of Astonishing Diversity

It usually takes two maps to hold Chile inside a book page. It is very long: 2,700 miles or 4,300 kilometers from the southernmost tip of South American Patagonia to the tropical desert of Atacama (it’s the distance from New York to Los Angeles). To the east, it is washed by a rough and…

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Planning Your Travel to Chile

Government of Chile’s Step by Step Plan for COVID-19 Chile has ranked consistently as one of the top ten places to be during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to coronavirus control strategies linked to its highly-praised vaccination program. Over 92,4% of the Chilean population is vaccinated, which has allowed the country to relax its travel rules….

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IALJS to Host Hybrid Conference in Chile

The Sixteenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-16) to be hosted by the Universidad Alberto Hurtado in Santiago, Chile, May 12 to 14, 2022, will be a hybrid event. At this time, continuing uncertainty about COVID-19 as well as the variety of university-related travel and funding restrictions to which many of our members are…

Rob Alexander

Remote Immersion: The Power of Not Going There

*Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 14, no. 2 (2021). Go there. At least once a semester, I write these words on the white board in my journalism classes. The phrase is meant to get my students away from their screens and out into the world….

Lisa A. Phillips

“Be That It Made Some Contribution”

A veteran literary journalist reflects on the craft and key stories in his new book, The Detective: And Other True Stories Why did I write these stories? That was my first thought when I read the galley for The Detective: And Other True Stories, in which Mike Sager and Alex Belth, both of Esquire lineage,…

Walt Harrington

Torturous Paths for Historical Research

Beyond a normative ontology of literary journalism *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 12, no. 3 (2018). The aim of this text is two-fold. On the one hand, I want to give an account of my doctoral research project. On the other hand, this is a…

Hendrik Michael

On Teaching Observation

Writing Exactly What You See: Often Students See More Than They Think Just after eleven in the morning one fall semester, pre-social media times, maybe 2005, when I was still teaching the two courses that produced the Ryerson Review of Journalism, a fourth-year undergraduate student, Erin, knocked on my office door. She was upset. She…

Bill Reynolds

CFP: Narrative Journalism Across Media: Nonfiction Ethics and Literary Aesthetics

Call for Panel Participants Sessions Organized by the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies To Be Held at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication August 3–6, 2022 Detroit, USA Narrative Journalism Across Media: Nonfiction Ethics and Literary Aesthetics Digital media forms increasingly provide the canvas for the most…

Jonathan D. Fitzgerald

Literary Journalism in Japan

*Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 4, no. 4 (2010). Virtually all literary varieties known in the Western world—novels, poems, dramas—exist in Japan in some form, with some dating back to the eleventh century, when the popular Tale of Genji was produced. Likewise, journalism’s various forms…

Miki Tanikawa

Literary Journalism and the P/Light of the ‘Lumières’

A Report on the Fifteenth ESSE Conference The fifteenth congress for the European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), scheduled for the summer of 2020 but delayed a year due to the pandemic, was held virtually at the Université Lumière Lyon 2 in Lyon, France, from August 30 to September 3, 2021. As in…

Pauline Schwaller

Literary Journalism in a Language Class

Introducing literary journalism to non-native students of English. *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 4, no. 4 (2010). The course I am teaching in the M.A. program in Information and Communication Studies at my university is called “Language and Culture of English-Speaking Peoples,” which means I…

Isabel Meuret

“In Dialogue with a Living, Breathing Tradition”: a Foreword to The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism

*Editor’s note: The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and international study of American literary journalism, written and edited by many longtime members of the IALJS. We’re republishing the book’s foreword to commemorate its new availability in paperback. American academia and journalism have long had an awkward relationship. An offspring of…

Robert S. Boynton