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The Art of Fact:

A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism
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Kevin Kerrane, Ben Yagoda
11 Reviews
Scribner, Aug 3, 1998 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 560 pages
This fascinating compilation of the journalist's art unites the reporter's magnificent eye for detail with the novelist's gift for storytelling. Featuring eyewitness accounts of war and social revolution, profiles of sports heroes and politicians, and eye-opening investigations into both the mundane and the eccentric details of life, it includes:
-- Walt Whitman on the Battle of Chancellorsville
-- Stephen Crane, George Orwell, and Jack London on how the other half lives
-- Abraham Cahan on immigrants arriving in New York
-- Rebecca West on Bosnia
-- Piers Paul Read on survival in the Andes
-- Jimmy Breslin on John F Kennedy's funeral
-- Richard Ben Cramer on the 1988 presidential election
-- Svetlana Alexiyevich on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan
-- David Simon on Baltimore's homicide interrogation room
-- Bill Buford on soccer thugs
-- Rosemary Mahoney on a lesbian bar in Dublin

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Review: The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism

User Review  - Dick Reynolds - Goodreads

This book was a Christmas present from my daughter-in-law and I can't remember a gift I've enjoyed so much. There are fifty-eight pieces in the book and they span a great variety and time frame of ... Read full review

Review: The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism

User Review  - Clarence Cromwell - Goodreads

The best selection of literary journalism I've seen. This volume includes the usual suspects (Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson--yawn) as well as my favorites: Joan Didion and John Steinbeck. Also found a ... Read full review

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About the author (1998)

In a new epilogue Kevin Kerrane explores the world of baseball scouting in the late 1990s. Kerrane is a professor of English at the University of Delaware.

Ben Yagoda is the author of About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and Will Rogers. He is coeditor, with Kevin Kerrane, of The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, The American Scholar, Esquire, and many other publications. Yagoda directs the journalism department at the University of Delaware, where he teaches nonfiction writing. He lives in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, with his wife and two daughters.

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