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Discovering the New Journalism
New Journalism, or what might be called author-centric reporting, has been around in different forms for quite a while. The most famous practitioners gained wide attention in the turbulent 1960s, but their roots can be traced all the way back to Dickens, and even Dr. Samuel Johnson’s James Boswell.
Collecting Frank McCourt
McCourt, who died this past summer, was a teacher and brilliant chronicler of his life, which began in miserable poverty in Ireland. His first book, Angela’s Ashes, became an unlikely bestseller and won both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
Firsts in Film 2008
Like to read? Like to watch movies? We look at a selection of novels adapted into films during 2008. It could hardly have been a richer year.
Ten Years Ago
Kim Stanley Robinson
Books into Film
In Cold Blood