Authors: Walt Harrington
ISBN-13: 9780761905868, ISBN-10: 0761905863
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date Published: March 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
An exemplary text for courses in feature writing, magazine and literary journalism, Intimate Journalism introduces students to the art of combining human interest stories with incisive journalistic enquiry. Harrington prefaces this outstanding collection of award-winning feature articles with detailed, practical reporting advice, sharing trade secrets from his 15 years as a staff writer for The Washington Post. The following chapters each contain examples of human interest reporting, followed by an invaluable afterward from each journalist describing how he or she conceptualized, reported and wrote their particular story.
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Prologue: The Job of Remembering for the Tribe | ||
A Writer's Essay: Seeking the Extraordinary in the Ordinary | ||
On Thinking About Intimate Journalism | ||
On Reporting .... | ||
On Writing ... | ||
A Final Thought ... | ||
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The Man Who Couldn't Read | 3 | |
2 | Shadow of a Nation | 19 |
343 | ||
The American Man at Age 10 | 45 | |
459 | ||
The Last Housewife in America | 61 | |
5 | TV Without Guilt | 77 |
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Mrs. Kelly's Monster | 97 | |
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Missing Alice | 111 | |
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In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle | 125 | |
9 | Zepp's Last Stand | 141 |
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Each Other's Mirror | 159 | |
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How The World Turns in West Philadelphia | 173 | |
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Death in Venice | 227 | |
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True Detective | 247 | |
14 | When Daddy Comes Home | 275 |
15 | The Shape of Her Dreaming | 297 |
Notes: Prologue and A Writer's Essay | 321 | |
Acknowledgments | 323 | |
About the Editor | 325 |