The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry - by Kim Addonizio, Dorianne Laux, 1997
This book continues to be one of our all-time favorites. Craft, technique, tweaks, chirps, & flutters…Linda wouldn’t know what to do without this one. There are three main sections: “Subjects for Writing” (e.g. death, the erotic), “The Poet’s Craft” (metaphor, rhyme), and “The Writing Life” (self-doubt, writer’s block); four separate appendixes list other writing texts, anthologies, marketing tips, and electronic resources. Addonizio and Laux are both well-published poets, and very familiar with the poetry “scene.” They’re both young, but kind, knowledgeable, and kreative. Great tool.
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Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy - by Barbie Zelizer, 2004
Taking Journalism Seriously argues that scholars have remained too entrenched within their own disciplinary areas resulting in isolated bodies of scholarship. This is the first book to critically survey journalism scholarship in one volume and organize it by disparate fields. The book reviews existing journalism research in such diverse fields as sociology, history, language studies, political science, and cultural analysis and dissects the most prevalent and understated research in each discipline. This book is designed for undergraduate and graduate students in advanced courses on Journalism and Journalism Studies. It will also be of interest to scholars, academics, and researchers in the fields of Journalism, Communication, Media Studies, Sociology, and Cultural Studies.
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The Gang That Wouldn’t Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didion, and the New Journalism Revolution - by Marc Weingarten, 2005
Marc Weingarten has interviewed many of the major players to provide a startling behind-the-scenes account of the rise and fall of the most revolutionary literary outpouring of the postwar era, set against the backdrop of some of the most turbulent�and significant�years in contemporary American life. These are the stories behind those stories, from Tom Wolfe’s white-suited adventures in the counterculture to Hunter S. Thompson’s drug-addled invention of gonzo to Michael Herr’s redefinition of war reporting in the hell of Vietnam. Weingarten also tells the deeper backstory, recounting the rich and surprising history of the editors and the magazines who made the movement possible, notably the three greatest editors of the era�Harold Hayes at Esquire, Clay Felker at New York, and Jann Wenner at Rolling Stone. And finally Weingarten takes us through the demise of the New Journalists, the result of a combination of hubris, miscalculation, and corporate menacing.
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Literary Journalism - by Norman Sims, Mark Kramer, 1995
Memoirs and personal essays, profiles, science and nature reportage, travel writing - literary journalists are working in all of these forms with artful styles and fresh approaches, and they make money with articles that are in high demand. In Literary Journalism, editors Norman Sims and Mark Kramer have collected the finest examples of literary journalism from both the masters of the genre who have been working for decades and the new voices freshly arrived on the national scene. From these examples you can learn what turns the ordinary essay into a literary work of art.
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Living Legacies: How to Write, Illustrate, and Share Your Life Stories - by Duane Elgin, Coleen Ledrew, 2001
Writers sometimes begin to write with short stories, and sometimes through nonfiction articles. Writing about life stories is what it’s all about in the long run. You write about what you know, research what you don’t know, and share the end result with the world - or just with your loved ones. This beautifully designed and illustrated guide escorts readers through the process of writing down their stories and illustrating them with photographs, memorabilia, and other images, including digital format (so you become a designer as well as a writer!). By offering readers questions to draw out events and memories, the book emphasizes a person’s full life, in all of its highs and lows, magic moments, and simple pleasures. The book’s supportive approach will inspire even first-time writers to forge a collection of stories to share and pass on to the important people in their lives.
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