The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
10 best books like The New New Journalism: Conversations with America's Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft (Robert S. Boynton): A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons, His Hideous Heart, Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, The Elements of Style, Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, Telling True Stories: A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University, The Stardust Revolution: The New Story of Our Origin in the Stars, Notes from Underground: Zines and the Politics of Alternative Culture, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons
| Author | Robert M. Sapolsky |
| ISBN | 0743202414 |
In the tradition of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, Robert Sapolsky, a foremost science writer and recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant, tells the mesmerizing story of his twenty-one years in remote Kenya with a troop of Savannah baboons.
“I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when...
| Author | Dahlia Adler |
| ISBN | 1250302773 |
Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and popular tales for a new generation.
Edgar Allan Poe may be a hundred and fifty years beyond this world, but the themes of his beloved works have much in common with modern young adult fiction....
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
| Author | Noam Chomsky |
| ISBN | 0375714499 |
An absolutely brilliant analysis of the ways in which individuals and organizations of the media are influenced to shape the social agendas of knowledge and, therefore, belief. Contrary to the popular conception of members of the press as hard-bitten realists doggedly pursuing unpopular truths,...
| Author | William Strunk Jr. |
| ISBN | 0205313426 |
This book is good for the following things:
1. Propping up a short table leg
2. Lining a bird cage
3. Building a fire
4. Using as a coaster for cold drinks
I devoted some of my grammar thesis to criticizing this book, and it was time well spent.
Geoff...
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
| Author | Warren Ellis |
| ISBN | 1563894459 |
After years of self-imposed exile from a civilization rife with degradation and indecency, cynical journalist Spider Jerusalem is forced to return to a job that he hates and a city that he loathes. Working as an investigative reporter for the newspaper The Word, Spider attacks the injustices of his...
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
| Author | Hunter S. Thompson |
| ISBN | 0446698229 |
Hilarious, terrifying, insightful, and compulsively readable, these are the articles that Hunter S. Thompson wrote for Rolling Stone magazine while covering the 1972 election campaign of President Richard M. Nixon and his unsuccessful opponent, Senator George S. McGovern. Hunter focuses largely...
| Author | Mark Kramer |
| ISBN | 0452287553 |
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...
| Author | Jacob Berkowitz |
| ISBN | 1616145498 |
Three great scientific revolutions have shaped our understanding of the cosmos and our relationship to it. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed the Copernican Revolution, which bodychecked the Earth as the pivot point of creation and joined us with the rest of the cosmos as one planet...
| Author | Stephen Duncombe |
| ISBN | 1859841589 |
Slug & Lettuce, Pathetic Life, I Hate Brenda, Dishwasher, Punk and Destroy, Sweet Jesus, Scrambled Eggs, Maximunrocknroll—these are among the thousands of publications which circulate in a subterranean world rarely illuminated by the searchlights of mainstream media commentary. In this...
Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric
| Author | Claudia Rankine |
| ISBN | 1555974074 |
In this powerful sequence of TV images and essay, Claudia Rankine explores the personal and political unrest of our volatile new century.
I forget things too. It makes me sad. Or it makes me the saddest. The sadness is not really about George W. or our American optimism; the sadness lives in the...
