Literary Journalism across the Globe: Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences

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Copyright © 2011 by University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America lC 2011006673 isBn 978-1-55849-877-8 (paper); 978-1-55849-876-1 (library cloth) Set in Adobe Garamond Pro Printed and bound by Thomson Shore, Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Literary journalism across the globe : journalistic traditions and transnational influences / edited by John S. Bak and Bill Reynolds. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. isBn 978-1-55849-877-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isBn 978-1-55849-876-1 (library cloth : alk. paper) 1. Reportage literature—History and criticism. 2. Journalism and literature. I. Bak, John S. II. Reynolds, Bill. Pn3377.5.R45l57 2011 070.9—dc22 2011006673 British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available. To IALJS The art and craft of reportage—journalism marked by vivid description, a novelist’s eye to form, and eyewitness reporting that reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. — Granta, England Reportage Literature is an engagement with reality with a novelist’s eye but with a journalist’s discipline. — PedRo Rosa Mendes, Portugal I think one of the first things for literary reportage should be to go into the field and to try to get the other side of the story. Reportage should give a fresh vision of a topic. — Anne Nivat, France A good reportage must not necessarily be linked with topical or political events which are taking place around us. I think the miracle of things lies not in showing the extraordinary but in showing ordinary things in which the extraordinary is hidden. — NiRmal VeRma, India Journalism that would read like a novel . . . or short story. — Tom Wolfe, United States ...