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Alexander, Robert. \u201c\u2018My Story Is Always Escaping Into other People\u2019: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Double in American Literary Journalism.\u201d Literary Journalism Studies <\/em>1: 1 (Spring 2009): 57\u201366. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander, Robert. \u201cThe Right Kind of Eyes: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/em> as a Novel of Journalist Development.\u201d Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 4:1 (2012): 19\u201336. This article is part of a special issue of LJS<\/em> marking the 40th anniversary of the publication of Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/em>. Interested readers should consult the entire issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anderson, Chris.  Style as Argument: Contemporary American Nonfiction<\/em>.  Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Applegate, Edd.  Literary Journalism: A Biographical Dictionary of Writers and Editors<\/em>.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arlen, Michael J. \u201cNotes on the New Journalism.\u201d Atlantic Monthly<\/em> (May 1972): 43-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashdown, Paul, ed.  Stephen Crane: Selected Journalism<\/em>.  Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bartley, Aryn.  \u201cThe Citizen-Witness and the Politics of Shame: Walker Evans and James Agee\u2019s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.\u201d Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 1:2 (Fall 2009):23-41.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bass, S. M.W., and Joseph Rebello, \u201cThe Economics of the New Journalism: The Case of Esquire<\/em>,\u201d American Journalism<\/em> (Winter\/Spring 1992): 4-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beard, John. \u201cInside the Whale: A Critical Study of the New Journalism and the Nonfiction Form (McPhee, Wolfe, Mailer, Thompson).\u201d PhD dissertation, Florida State University, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caron, James E. “Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s \u2018Gonzo\u2019 Journalism and the Tall Tale Tradition in America.” Studies in Popular Culture<\/em> 8.1 (1985) 1-16. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cobley, Evelyn. \u201cNarrating the Facts of War: New Journalism in Herr\u2019s Dispatches<\/em> and Documentary Realism in First World War Novels.\u201d The Journal of Narrative Technique<\/em> 16, no. 2 (1986): 97\u2013116.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Connery, Thomas B.  A Sourcebook on American Literary Journalism: Representative Writers in an Emerging Genre<\/em>.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1992.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dickstein, Morris.  \u201cThe Working Press, the Literary Culture, and the New Journalism.\u201d The Georgia Review<\/em> 30: 4 (1976): 855-877.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dow, William.  \u201cUnreading Modernism: Richard Wright\u2019s Literary Journalism.\u201d  Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 5:2 (Fall 2013): 59-89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dow, William, and Roberta S. Maguire, eds.  The Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism<\/em>.  New York: Routledge, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ferry, Peter.  \u201cWriting Men on the Margins: Joseph Mitchell, Masculinity, and the Flaneur.\u201d  Literary Journalism Studies<\/em>9:2 (Fall 2017): 52-73.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fishkin, Shelly F.  From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America<\/em>.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fitzgerald, Jonathan D.  \u201cSetting the Record Straight: Women Literary Journalists Writing Against the Mainstream.\u201d PhD dissertation, Northeastern University, 2018.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forde, Kathy Roberts. Literary Journalism on Trial: <\/em>Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment<\/em>. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Frus, Phyllis.  The Politics and Poetics of Journalistic Narrative: The Timely and the Timeless<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Geltner, Ted. \u201cHype Artists, Con Men, Pimps, and Dopesters: The Personal Journalism of Harry Crews.\u201d Journal of Magazine & New Media Research<\/em> 12, no. 1 (2010): 1\u201322.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gutkind, Lee.  The Fine Art of Literary Fist-Fighting: How a Bunch of Rabble-Rousers, Outsiders, and Ne\u2019er-do-wells Concocted Creative Nonfiction.<\/em>  New Haven: Yale University Press, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harred, Jane Catherine.  \u201cNever a Copy: The Conflicting Claims of Narrative Discourse and its Referent in the Literary Journalism of Truman Capote, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hartshorne, Thomas L. \u201cTom Wolfe on the 1960s.\u201d The Midwest Quarterly<\/em> 23 (1982): 144-163.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hartsock, John C. \u201cThe Critical Marginalization of American Literary Journalism.\u201d Critical Studies in Mass Communication<\/em> 15:1 (March 1998): 61-84.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harsock, John C.  A History of American Literary Journalism: The Emergence of Modern Literary Form<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hartsock, John C.  Literary Journalism and the Aesthetics of Experience<\/em>.  Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hellman, John.  Fables of Fact: The New Journalism as Fiction<\/em>.  Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1981.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hoagland, Paul, and Kurt Duecker. \u201cNorman Mailer at Columbia.\u201d Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art<\/em>, no. 6 (1981): 103\u2013115. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hollowell, John.  Fact and Fiction: The New Journalism and the Nonfiction Novel<\/em>.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1977.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacobs, Michael.  Confronting the (Un)Reality of Pranksterdom: Tom Wolfe and The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.\u201d  Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 7:2 (Fall 2015): 132-151.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Johnson, Michael L. The New Journalism: The Underground Press, the Artists of Nonfiction, and Changes in the Established Media. <\/em>Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 1971.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 9:1 (Summer 1975).  Special issue on Literary Journalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katz, Tamar.  \u201cAnecdotal History: The New Yorker<\/em>, Joseph Mitchell, and Literary Journalism.\u201d  American Literary History<\/em> 27:3 (Fall 2015): 461-486.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaul,  Arthur J.  American Literary Journalists, 1945-1995<\/em>.  Detroit: Gale Research, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerrane, Kevin, and Ben Yagoda, eds.  The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism<\/em>.  New York: Scribner’s, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Konas, Gary. \u201cTraveling \u2018Furthur\u2019 with Tom Wolfe\u2019s Heroes.\u201d Journal of Popular Culture<\/em> 28:3 (2004): 177-192.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krim, Seymour.  Views of a Nearsighted Cannoneer<\/em>.  New York: Excelsior Press, 1961.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Krim, Seymour.  Shake it For the World, Smartass<\/em>.  New York: The Dial Press, 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lim, Gerard Wei-Meng. \u201cA Vision of Paradise: California in the New Journalism of Joan Didion.\u201d PhD dissertation, University of Southern California, 1987.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 4:1 (Spring 2012).  Special issue on Hunter S. Thompson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lounsberry, Barbara. \u201cPersonal Mythos and the New Journalism: Gay Talese\u2019s Fathers and Sons.\u201d The Georgia Review<\/em> 37, no. 3 (1983): 517\u2013529. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lounsberry, Barbara.  The Art of Fact: Contemporary Artists of Nonfiction<\/em>.  New York: Greenwood, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lovein, Eric. \u201cThe Death of Existentialism in American Culture: Joan Didion\u2019s Los Angeles, 1966-1971.\u201d PhD dissertation, California State University-Fullerton, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maguire, Roberta. \u201cRiffing on Hemingway and Burke, Responding to Mailer and Wolfe: Albert Murray\u2019s \u2018Anti-Journalism.\u2019\u201d Literary Journalism Studies <\/em>2, no. 2 (Fall 2010): 9-26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maguire, Roberta S.  \u201cAfrican American Literary Journalism: Extensions and Elaborations.\u201d  Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 5:2 (Fall 2013): 8-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maguire, Roberta S. “From Fiction to Fact: Zora Neale Hurston and the Ruby McCollum Trial.” Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 7:1 (Spring 2013): 16-34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Malone, Tyler. \u201cLillian Ross\u2019s Picture<\/em>: A Chronicle of MGM\u2019s Mutilation of John Huston\u2019s The Red Badge of Courage<\/em>.\u201d Cin\u00e9aste<\/em> 44, no. 4 (2019): 20\u201324.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many, Paul A.  “Toward a History of Literary Journalism.”  Michigan Academician<\/em> 24 (Summer 1992): 559-570.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mills, Nicolaus.  The New Journalism: A Historical Anthology<\/em>.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mosser, Jason.  The Participatory Journalism of Michael Herr, Norman Mailer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Joan Didion<\/em>.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Muggli, Mark Z.  \u201cThe Poetics of Joan Didion\u2019s Journalism.\u201d American Literature<\/em> 59:3 (1987): 402-421.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Murphy, James E.  The New Journalism: A Critical Perspective<\/em>.  Lexington: Association for Education in Journalism, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Newfield, Jack.  \u201cIs There a New Journalism?  Columbia Journalism Review<\/em> 11:2 (1972): 45-47.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O\u2019Brien, Colleen C.  \u201cBlacks in All Quarters of the Globe\u2019: Anti-Imperialism, Insurgent Cosmopolitanism, and International Labor in Pauline Hopkins\u2019s Literary Journalism.\u201d  American Quarterly<\/em> 61:2 (June 2009): 245-270.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phillips, Lisa.  \u201cEvery Year There\u2019s a Pretty Girl Who Comes to New York and Pretends to Be a Writer: Gender, the New Journalism, and the Early Careers of Gloria Steinem and Gail Sheehy.\u201d Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 13:1\/2 (2021): 76-99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reynolds, Bill. \u201cOn the Road to Gonzo: Hunter S. Thompson\u2019s Early Literary Journalism (1961-1970).\u201d Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 4:1 (2012): 51\u201384.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robertson, Michael.  “Stephen Crane’s New York City Journalism and the Oft-told Tale.”  American Journalism<\/em> 9 (Winter-Spring 1992): 7-22.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roggenkamp, Karen H.  “Narrating the News: New Journalism and Literary Genre in Late Nineteenth Century American Newspapers and Fiction.”  PhD dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roiland, Joshua M.  \u201cJust People are Just People: Langston Hughes and the Populist Power of African American Literary Journalism.\u201d  Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 5:2 (Fall 2014): 15-35.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saliba, J. Keith, and Ted Geltner.  \u201cLiterary War Journalism: Framing and the Creation of Meaning.\u201d Journal of Magazine Media<\/em> 13:2 (Summer 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schmidt, Thomas R.  \u201cPioneer of Style: How the Washington Post<\/em> Adopted Literary Journalism.\u201d  Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 9:1 (Spring 2017): 39-54.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scholnick, Robert J. \u201cThe Ultraism of the Day: Greene\u2019s Boston Post<\/em>, Hawthorne, Fuller, Melville, Stowe, and Literary Journalism in Antebellum America.\u201d American Periodicals<\/em> 18:2 (2008): 163-191.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schreiber, Holly E. \u201cRepresentations of Poverty in American Literary Journalism.\u201d PhD dissertation, Indiana University, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seib, Kenneth A. \u201cMailer\u2019s March: The Epic Structure of The Armies of the Night<\/em>.\u201d Essays in Literature<\/em> 1 (1974): 89-95.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaber, Sarah R. \u201cHemingway\u2019s Literary Journalism: The Spanish Civil War Dispatches.\u201d Journalism Quarterly<\/em> 57:3 (Fall 1980): 420-424, 535.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sims, Norman, ed.  Literary Journalism in the Twentieth Century<\/em>.  New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.  (new edition available from Northwestern UP, 2008)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sims, Norman, ed.  The Literary Journalists<\/em>.  New York: Ballantine, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sims, Norman, and Mark Kramer, eds.  Literary Journalism: A New Collection of the Best American Nonfiction<\/em>. New York: Ballantine, 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sims, Norman.  True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism<\/em>.  Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spahr, Clemens.  \u201cThe Great Work of Mutual Education: Class, Popularity, and the Position of Intellectual in Margaret Fuller\u2019s Literary Journalism.\u201d  ESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture<\/em> 66: 3 (2020): 481-515.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staub, Michael E.  \u201cSetting Up the Seventies: Black Panthers, New Journalism, and the Rewriting of the Sixties,\u201d in The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture<\/em>, ed. Shelton Waldrep.  New York: Routledge, 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stull, James N.  \u201cPresentations of the Self in Contemporary American Literary Journalism, 1965-1980.\u201d  PhD dissertation, University of Iowa, 1990.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thorne, Ann.  \u201cDeveloping a Personal Style: Janet Flanner\u2019s Literary Journalism.\u201d  American Journalism<\/em> 23:1 (Winter 2006): 35-62.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underwood, Doug.  Journalism and the Novel: Truth and Fiction, 1700-2000<\/em>.  New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Underwood, Doug.  The Undeclared War Between Journalism and Fiction: Journalists as Genre Benders in Literary History<\/em>.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wampole, Christy, and Jason Childs, eds.\u00a0\u00a0The Cambridge History of the American Essay<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weales, Gerald. \u201cThe Labyrinthian Digression of A. J. Liebling.\u201d\u00a0The Sewanee Review<\/em>\u00a083, no. 4 (1975): 643\u2013664.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weber, Ronald.  The Reporter as Artist: A Look at the New Journalism Controversy<\/em>.  New York: Hastings House, 1974.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weber, Ronald.  The Literature of Fact: Literary Nonfiction in American Writing<\/em>.  Athens: Ohio University Press, 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weingarten, Mark.  The Gang That Wouldn\u2019t Write Straight: Wolfe, Thompson, Didon, and the New Journalism<\/em>.  New York: Crown, 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitt, Jan.  \u201cTo Do Some Good and No Harm: The Literary Journalism of John Steinbeck.\u201d Steinbeck Review<\/em> 3:2 (Fall 2006): 41-62.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitt, Jan.  Settling the Borderland: Other Voices in Literary Journalism<\/em>.  Lanham: University Press of America, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, Andrew. \u201cPentagon Pictures: The Civil Divide in Norman Mailer\u2019s The Armies of the Night<\/em>.\u201d Journal of American Studies<\/em> 44:4 (2010): 725-740.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, Christopher P. \u201cThe Underwater Narrative: Joan Didion\u2019s Miami<\/em>.\u201d Literary Journalism Studies<\/em> 3:2 (Fall 2011): 9-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wolfe, Tom.  The New Journalism<\/em>.  New York: Harper & Row, 1973.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Back to Index Page Alexander, Robert. \u201c\u2018My Story Is Always Escaping Into other People\u2019: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Double in American Literary Journalism.\u201d Literary Journalism Studies 1: 1 (Spring 2009): 57\u201366.  Alexander, Robert. \u201cThe Right Kind of Eyes: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as a Novel of Journalist Development.\u201d Literary Journalism Studies 4:1 (2012): 19\u201336. This article is part of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2226,"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions\/2226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mupages.marshall.edu\/masscommhistorybibliography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}