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The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism Paperback – 3 August 1998

by Kevin Kerrane (Editor), Ben Yagoda (Editor)
4.6 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
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Learn how to be the best journalist you can be with what "could be the world's most readable textbook" (Time Out New York).

The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to communicate powerful truth. Here an extraordinary range of styles--the elegance of Gay Talese, the militance of Marvel Cooke, the station-house cynicism of David Simon, the manic intelligence of Richard Ben Cramer--illuminates an extraordinary range of subjects. From large public events (Jimmy Breslin on the funeral of JFK) to small private moments (Gary Smith on the struggles of a Native American basketball player), these readings--sad, funny, and most of all provocative--offer the double pleasure of true stories artfully told.

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    3 August 1998
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    English
  5. Dimensions
    13.97 x 4.06 x 21.43 cm
  6. Print length
    560 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Scribner Book Company (3 August 1998)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 560 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0684846306
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0684846309
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 4.06 x 21.43 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 68 ratings

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  1. Rosemary Mahoney

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    Rosemary Mahoney was educated at Harvard College and Johns Hopkins University and has been awarded numerous awards for her writing, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers Award, a nomination for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award, a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Transatlantic Review Award for Fiction, and Harvard's Charles E. Horman Prize for writing.

    Mahoney is the author of six books of non-fiction: For the Benefit of Those Who See; Dispatches from the World of the Blind, Down the Nile; Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff, A Likely Story: One Summer with Lillian Hellman, The Singular Pilgrim: Travels on Sacred Ground, Whoredom in Kimmage: The World of Irish Women, and The Early Arrival of Dreams; A Year in China.

    She has written for numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The London Observer, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post Book World, The New York Times Book Review, Elle, National Geographic Traveler, O, the Oprah Magazine, and many others. She is a citizen of Ireland and the United States and lives in Athens, Greece.

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  • DallasCaley
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, good overview of literary Journalism
    Reviewed in the United States on 2 February 2023
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    I have a degree in Journalism, but till now did not know what "Literary Journalism" was. This book is a great overview of the history and the main writers in this genre.
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  • Lionel D. Youst
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best non-fiction ever
    Reviewed in the United States on 23 June 2017
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    I have been reading and writing non-fiction articles all my life and this is the best anthology of non-fiction writing I have ever read. Every article, without exception, is a page turner. And in the bargain, I learned about people and places and things I had never thought about. Besides the fun of reading it, you come away smarter.
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  • Diego Banducci
    5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinarily Fine
    Reviewed in the United States on 21 November 2008
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    While familiar with most of the writers in this book (Defoe, Boswell, Dickens, Whitman, Crane, Richard Harding Davis, London, Hersey, Lillian Ross, Talese, Capote, Tom Wolfe, Kidder, Orwell, Liebling, Mailer, Hunter Thompson, Hemingway, Agee, Joseph Mitchell, Rebecca West, Steinbeck, Breslin, Didion, and McPhee), I generally was not familiar with the works included. Additionally, there are numerous other writers I was not familiar with, so most of the reading experience was new to me.

    The variety of the works chosen is as impressive as their general excellence. In sum, the editors (both of whom teach English and journalism at the University of Delaware) have succeeded in producing a volume that is a delight to read. The only book that I'm aware of that is in the same league is Literary Journalism.

    Highly recommended.
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  • Barbara ZP
    4.0 out of 5 stars Art of Fact is a rich collection
    Reviewed in the United States on 25 October 2016
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    Great collection of articles by top journalists.
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  • Major
    5.0 out of 5 stars I found myself reading and re-reading the amazing short stories in here
    Reviewed in the United States on 28 August 2015
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    I bought this book for a class. However 3 months after the class, I found myself reading and re-reading the amazing short stories in here.
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