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 Second Read
Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage
Edited by James Marcus and the staff of the Columbia Journalism Review
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Read the Table of Contents | Read the introduction and Tom Piazza on Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night | Rick Perlstein on Paul Cowan's Tribes of America
"Let us now praise forgotten nonfiction. It is the fate of great journalism, perhaps, to fade away just a few decades after appearing. Yet that leaves for us the pleasures of rediscovery, which the essays collected in Second Read bring off in superb style." - Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What's the Matter with Kansas? (Read more reviews)
Second Read features distinguished journalists revisiting key works of reportage. Along the way, the authors address such ongoing concerns as the conflict between narrative flair and accurate reporting, the legacy of New Journalism, the need for reporters to question their political assumptions, the limitations of participatory journalism, and the temptation to substitute "truthiness" for hard, challenging fact. Representing a wide range of views, Second Read embodies the diversity and dynamism of contemporary nonfiction while offering fresh perspectives on works by Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, Rachel Carson, and Gabriel García Márquez, among others. It also highlights pivotal moments and movements in journalism as well as the innovations of award-winning writers.
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