Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism

William E. Dow is Professor of American Literature at the Université Paris-Est (UPEM) and Professor of English at The American University of Paris. He is the author of the book Narrating Class in American Fiction (2009) and co-editor of Richard Wright: New Readings in the 21st Century (2011), Richard Wright in a Post-Racial Imaginary (2014), and Of Latitudes Unknown: James Baldwin’s Radical Imagination (2019). He is also Associate Editor of Literary Journalism Studies (Northwestern University Press).Roberta S. Maguire is the Oshkosh Northwestern Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She has published extensively on Albert Murray, including Conversations with Albert Murray (1998), as well as essays on Alice Childress, Anna Julia Cooper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lewis Nordan, and Walker Percy. An associate editor of Literary Journalism Studies, she served as the guest editor for the Fall 2013 special issue devoted to African American literary journalism.Yoko Nakamura is a graduate student in Interdisciplinary Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Iowa. She holds a BA in International Economics and International Politics from the American University of Paris.

• PART 1: Historical Perspectives ""From the Boston News-Letter, Through the ‘Couranteers’: Epistolarity, Reportage, and Entertaining Literature in Colonial American Newspapers."" Colin T. Ramsey. ""The Antebellum Origins of American Literary Journalism: Five Pioneers."" Carolyn L. Karcher. ""Literary Journalism in Transition: The Early Memoirs of William Grimes, Mattie Jackson, and Nicholas Said."" Jessie Lafrance and Barbara McCaskill. ""American Realism and the Stirrings of Literary Journalism."" Thomas Connery. ""Literary Journalism and America’s Naturalistic Writers."" Roark Mulligan. ""Journalistic Literature: Female Reporters and Newspaper Fiction, 1880-1930."" Karen Roggenkamp. ""Two Gilded Ages: Literary Muckrakers 1900s/2000s."" Cecelia Tichi. ""‘Feel the Fact’: The 1930s Reportage of Joseph North, John L. Spivak, and Meridel LeSueur."" Don Dingledine. ""Performative Criticism and the Problem of Modernist Chic: Gertrude Stein, Janet Flanner, and Dorothy Parker."" Nancy Bombaci. ""The New Journalism, 1960-1980."" John J. Pauly. ""Eternal Present Tense: The New Journalism Moved beyond Basic Needs to Tell Deeper Narratives about Chicago ‘68."" Bill Reynolds. ""Literary Journalism and Alternative Media."" Susan Keith. ""From Magazines to Newsprint: How Literary Journalism Went 'Mainstream'."" Jim Collins.

"This stimulating compendium of thoughtful discussions of American literary journalism from its colonial beginnings to the contemporary digital moment will be the go-to volume on the subject for a long time. Richly inclusive—and filled with surprising juxtapositions, fresh insights, and unexpected excursions into the past and present—the Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism is a pleasure to read."Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Joseph S. Atha Professor of Humanities; Professor of English, and Director of American Studies, Stanford University, and author of From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America."Roberta Maguire and William Dow’s Routledge Companion to American Literary Journalism clearly illuminates virtually every aspect of the discipline, and the volume will serve as a foundational text for scholars and students of the field for many years to come. Notably, its masterful structure—insightful scholarly essays addressing historical, then thematic, theoretical and future-study issues—is truly a tour de force."David Abrahamson, Professor of Journalism, Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, The Medill School."This may be the most complete volume on literary journalism yet. Three dozen of the best thinkers on the topic write about its history, relationship to "real life," and the New Journalism, including the late John Pauly on the New Yorker magazine. Just as importantly, these scholars take new approaches, examine different writers, and create new critical directions for future study."Norman Sims, Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism.