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10 best books like Literary Journalism (Norman Sims): The American Way of Birth, And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years, And So It Goes: Adventures in Television, The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, The Best American Essays 2006, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, The Best American Essays 2003, The Best American Essays 2004, The Best American Essays 2005, Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from the New Yorker

The American Way of Birth
AuthorJessica Mitford
ISBN0788163450
Three decades ago, Jessica Mitford became famous when she introduced us to the idiosyncracies of American funeral rites in The American Way of Death. Now in a book as fresh, provocative, and fearless as anything else she has written, she shows us how and in what circumstances Americans give birth.

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And It Don't Stop: The Best American Hip-Hop Journalism of the Last 25 Years
AuthorRaquel Cepeda
ISBN0571211593
In September 1979, there was a cosmic shift that went unnoticed by the majority of mainstream America. This shift was triggered by the release of the Sugarhill Gang's single, Rapper's Delight. Not only did it usher rap music into the mainstream's consciousness, it brought us the word "hip-hop." And...
And So It Goes: Adventures in Television
AuthorLinda Ellerbee
ISBN0425102378
Linda Ellerbee (born Linda Jane Smith) is a journalist who is most known for several jobs at NBC News, including Washington (DC) correspondent, and reporter and co-anchor of NBC News Overnight, which was recognized by the duPont Columbia Awards as "the best written and most intelligent news program...
The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
AuthorKevin Kerrane
ISBN0684846306
This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both...
The Best American Essays 2006
AuthorLauren Slater
ISBN0618705295
"The essays in this volume are powerful, plainspoken meditations on birthing, dying, and all the business in between," writes Lauren Slater in her introduction to the 2006 edition. "They reflect the best of what we, as a singular species, have to offer, which is reflection in a context of kindness....
Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
AuthorMark Kramer
ISBN0452287553
Inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism. Telling True Stories presents their best advice—covering everything...
The Best American Essays 2003
AuthorAnne Fadiman
ISBN0618341617
Since 1986, The Best American Essays has gathered the most interesting and provocative writing of the year, establishing a firm place as the leading annual of its kind. The volume is edited each year by an esteemed writer who brings a fresh eye to the selections. Previous editors have included Elizabeth...
The Best American Essays 2004
AuthorLouis Menand
ISBN0618357092
Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty and a hundred outstanding works. That selection...
The Best American Essays 2005
AuthorSusan Orlean
ISBN0618357130
The Best American series has been the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction since 1915. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of periodicals. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the very best twenty...
Reporting at Wit's End: Tales from the New Yorker
AuthorSt. Clair McKelway
"Why does A. J. Liebling remain a vibrant role model for writers while the superb, prolific St. Clair McKelway has been sorely forgotten?" James Wolcott asked this question in a recent review of the Complete New Yorker on DVD. Anyone who has read a single paragraph of McKelway's work would struggle to...
The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero & Myth-maker from the Crimea to Iraq
AuthorPhillip Knightley
ISBN0801880300
"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times...
The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat
AuthorEdna Buchanan
ISBN0743493648
I read another review on this site that said this book was far better than Connelly's book on his career as a journalist covering the crime beat. Buchanan's book is far more interesting in many aspects - first, she was a woman entering a man's career world in the late 60's/early 70's; second, she illustrated...
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
AuthorBen Hecht
ISBN1426426984
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
The New Journalism
AuthorTom Wolfe
ISBN0060471832
…don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion…
― Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
The New Journalism is a 1973 book that explains the concept behind the “new” kind of journalism presented by Tom Wolfe –...
The Art and Craft of Feature Writing: Based on the Wall Street Journal Guide
AuthorWilliam E. Blundell
ISBN0452261589
"Spot" or one-event news, written for print, employs a standard format, usually called "inverted pyramid." (Get the most important who-what-when-where-why-how up front, and as the paragraphs roll on, make the supporting information less and less vital to the reader's understanding of the story.)...
The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 1
AuthorLee Gutkind
ISBN0393330036
Lee Gutkind, proclaimed the "Godfather behind creative nonfiction" by Vanity Fair, along with the staff of his landmark journal Creative Nonfiction, has culled alternative publications, 'zines, blogs, podcasts, literary journals, and other often overlooked publications in search of new voices...
Reporting: Writings from The New Yorker
AuthorDavid Remnick
ISBN0307275752
David Remnick is a writer with a rare gift for making readers understand the hearts and minds of our public figures. Whether it’s the decline and fall of Mike Tyson, Al Gore’s struggle to move forward after his loss in the 2000 election, or Vladimir Putin dealing with Gorbachev’s legacy, Remnick...
Table of Contents
AuthorJohn McPhee
ISBN0374520089
Table of Contents is a collection of eight pieces that range from Alaska to New Jersey, describing, for example, the arrival of telephones in a small village near the Arctic Circle and the arrival of wild bears in considerable numbers in New Jersey, swarming in from the Poconos in search of a better life...
The Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father, and His Sister: Life and Death in Juárez
AuthorSandra Rodriguez Nieto
ISBN1784781045
The intimate story of a teenager’s murder of his family, from an award-winning Mexican journalist

Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly...
The Gay Talese Reader: Portraits and Encounters
AuthorGay Talese
ISBN0802776752
As a young reporter for The New York Times, in 1961 Gay Talese published his first book, New York: A Serendipiter's Journey, a series of vignettes and essays that began, "New York is a city of things unnoticed". It is a city with cats sleeping under parked cars, two stone armadillos crawling up St. Patrick's...
Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer
AuthorA.J. Liebling
ISBN0865477272
Abbott Joseph Liebling was one of the greatest of all New Yorker writers, a colorful figure who helped set the magazine's urbane tone and style. Just Enough Liebling gathers in one volume the vividest and most enjoyable of his pieces. Charles McGrath (in The New York Times Book Review) praised it as "a...
Circumstantial Evidence: Death, Life, and Justice in a Southern Town
AuthorPete Earley
ISBN0553573489
This one is worth seeking out and reading, probably over and over. I doubt you'll get the whole story the first time -- there is just too much to take it. This case happened in the same small Alabama town where Harper Lee grew up and where her fictional classic TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD was based (thinly disguised)....
The Death and Life of American Journalism: The Media Revolution that Will Begin the World Again
AuthorRobert W. McChesney
ISBN1568586051
Daily newspapers are closing across America. Washington bureaus are shuttering; whole areas of the federal government are now operating with no press coverage. International bureaus are going, going, gone.Journalism, the counterbalance to corporate and political power, the lifeblood of American...
The Years with Ross
AuthorJames Thurber
ISBN0060959711
From twentieth century humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the unforgettable Harold Ross.

Includes an introduction by Adam Gopnik, and illustrations by James Thurber

"If you get Ross down on paper," warned Wolcott...
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