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“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

IALJS at AEJMC in Virtual New Orleans

For the second consecutive year, IALJS sessions at the annual AEJMC meeting were held virtually. Originally scheduled for New Orleans, the two online sessions on August 4 and August 6 were dedicated to the theme of “Activist Narrative Journalism: Aesthetics and Politics of Alternative Media.” The 2021 sessions were the first assembled by the new…

David O. Dowling

Exploring Literary Journalism Coverage of Inequality and Social Protest: Report on the Transnational Literary Journalism Summer School, May 2021

One milestone of the three-year Franco-Chilean CRONICA project, which was planned for 2020 but postponed a year and presented entirely online, was the first Transnational Literary Journalism Summer School, an École d’été that looked to promote graduate student research into comparative literary journalism. Held in Nancy at the end of May, just following IALJS 15…

John S. Bak

IALJS Annual Business Meeting Minutes

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING Minutes from meeting held at IALJS-15 via Zoom on 21 May 2021. 19.00 – 20.00 Copenhagen Time (UTC +2) First Vice President Rob Alexander called the 2021 annual business meeting of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies to order at 19.00. He was chairing the…

Lisa A. Phillips

Convening in the Time of Covid: Greetings from Copenhagen

A Report on the 2021 IALJS Annual Convention The pandemic set the agenda for the IALJS-15 in Copenhagen, first postponed a full year and finally simply not making it physically to the host city. Online, however, it brought together a record total of 114 attendees from 25 countries. According to records kept by treasurer Bill…

Christine Isager