Thirty-five lively and literate profiles by contributing scholars analyze major writers of this literary genre or writers known for a major work in the genre, and Connery provides short pieces for nineteen additional figures. The volume introduction discusses definitions and characteristics of literary journalism, with reference to the patterns of reality depicted. The roots of this "new journalism" are traced, and ideas of the theorists of this genre are explicated. Connery also provides the results of his research--newly-founded primary sources of literary journalism.
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