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Welcome to the new home of Literary Journalism, the newsletter of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies!

Latest Stories

  • 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 … Read more
  • 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 … Read more
  • 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 … Read more
  • 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 … Read more
  • 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 … Read more
  • 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 … Read more
  • 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, … Read more
  • 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 … Read more
  • The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Gdańsk is the Host of IALJS-17
    The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication at the University of Gdańsk will host this year’s IALJS-17 in May. It is one of the 6 institutes that make up the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Institute of Media, Journalism and Social Communication stands out from the rest with its hands-on approach to research and … Read more
  • President’s Column: Gdansk Conference Update
    Spring has arrived in Gdańsk and that means it’s less than two months until the participants in the Seventeenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS -17) will be arriving too. Conference organizers are putting the finishing touches on a full program which promises to be a worthy successor to our successful meetings in Santiago … Read more
  • Looking for Uncle Tom’s Cabin
    I live in Natchitoches, Louisiana, in the parish of the same name; in Louisiana, we have parishes and not counties. After my landlord and neighbor gave me a copy of a little travelogue published in 1892 titled A Visit to Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Daniel B. Corley, a judge and former mayor of Abilene, Texas, I went looking … Read more
  • Literary Journalism Welcomes a New Editor
    What’s in store for the IALJS newsletter in 2023 Literary Journalism, the newsletter of the IALJS, is excited to welcome a new lead editor to its pages — Jonathan D. Fitzgerald. Fitz, as most people call him, has been an IALJS member since 2017, when he was a PhD student at Northeastern University in Boston, … Read more
  • The Rapid Media Change Theory of the History of American Literary Journalism
    Literary journalism emerges during times of rapid media change This essay is excerpted and adapted from Jonathan D. Fitzgerald’s forthcoming book How the News Feels: The Empathic Power of Literary Journalists (University of Massachusetts Press, July 2023). When I was in graduate school and beginning to approach the field of literary journalism studies, I was … Read more
  • Against Split Personality Pedagogy
    Teaching literary journalism reporting techniques across the journalism curriculum *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 13, no. 2 (2019). If you’re reading this article, you’re likely already engaged in the teaching and study of literary journalism. But you probably also teach classes other than literary journalism, … Read more
  • Literary Journalism In Fin-De-Siècle Vienna
    A cultural tradition of newspapers. *Editor’s note: This article is from our archives. It originally appeared in Literary Journalism vol. 12, no. 2 (2018).  Newspapers may not be the first cultural output that springs to mind in connection with Vienna, a city best known for its artistic and intellectual accomplishments over the last century. Instead, … Read more

From the Archives

Below each issue of the IALJS newsletter are commendable examples of literary journalism, some of which may be mentioned in the issue.