IALJS

International Association for Literary Journalism Studies

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Information related to the IALJS newsletter, Literary Journalism:

CURRENT ISSUE - This is the current issue of Literary Journalism in the form of a PDF file. It is rather large, so it may take a few minutes to download. Please be patient. Below are commendable examples of literary journalism, some of which may be mentioned in the issue.

Brooks's "Mis-Educating the Young"

Rosenbaum's "Magazines, Bring Back the Write-Around!"

Archived issues of Literary Journalism can be found here:

SUMMER ISSUE (Vol 11, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Roiland's "It Was Like Nothing Else"

Huber's "Being White in Philly"

SPRING ISSUE (Vol 11, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Roiland's "A Shot in the Arm"

Packer's "The Lesson of Tal Afar"

Glasser's "Covering Politics in Post-Truth America"

WINTER ISSUE (Vol 11, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Friend's "Adding a Zero"

Wolfe's "A City Built of Clay"

FALL ISSUE (Vol 10, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Heller's "The Big UnEasy"

Wolfe's "The Origins of Speech"

SUMMER ISSUE (Vol 10, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Cassidy's "Mastering the Machine"

Mendelson's "In the Depths of the Digital Age"

SPRING ISSUE (Vol 10, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Kirn's "Lost in the Meritocracy"

Hapern' s"In the Depths of the Net"

WINTER ISSUE (Vol 10, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Bellafante's "Reviving the Village Voice"

Tomasky's "Trump"

FALL 2015 ISSUE (Vol 9, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Heller's "The Cranky Wisdom of Peter Kaplan"

Malcolm's "The Master Writer of the City"

SUMMER 2015 ISSUE (Vol 9, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

DeFord's "All-America, All the Way"

Beard's "Diary"

SPRING 2015 ISSUE (Vol 9, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Fish's "Scholarship and Politics"

Klein's "Baghdad Year Zero"

WINTER 2015 ISSUE (Vol 9, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Cooper's "Ebola's Cultural Casualty"

Mead's "The Troll Slayer"

FALL 2014 ISSUE (Vol 8, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Shorto's "How to Think Like the Dutch"

Berryhill's "Max Soffar's Last Appeal"

SUMMER 2014 ISSUE (Vol 8, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Friend's "Thicker Than Water"

Hess's "Why Women Aren't Welcome on the Internet"

SPRING 2014 ISSUE (Vol 8, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Fish's "Scholarship and Politics"

Klein's "Baghdad Year Zero"

WINTER 2014 ISSUE (Vol 8, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Purdum's "It Came from Wasilla"

Tynan's "Salto Mortale"

Yang's "Paper Tigers"

FALL 2013 ISSUE (Vol 7, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Heller's "Latop U"

Frazier's "Route 3"

SUMMER 2013 ISSUE (Vol 7, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Packer's "The Broken Contract"

Kirns's "Confessions of an Ex-Mormon"

Cunningham's "Cause and Effect"

SPRING 2013 ISSUE (Vol 7, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Colloff's "The Innocent Man"

Remnick's "Bruce Springsteen at 62"

WINTER 2013 ISSUE (Vol 7, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Gladwell's "The Order of Things"

Macfarquahar's "Outside Agitator"

FALL 2012 ISSUE (Vol 6, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Campbell's "Iran's Quiet Revolution"

Freeland's "The Rise of the New Global Elite"

Filkins's "The Deep State"

SUMMER 2012 ISSUE (Vol 6, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Hessler's "Dr. Don"

Boyer's "A Beauty"

Franzen's "Farther Away"

SPRING 2012 ISSUE (Vol 6, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Lightman's "The Accidental Universe"

Seabrook's "Crunch"

Wang's "Paper Tigers"

WINTER 2012 ISSUE (Vol 6, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Pressler's "It's Good to Be Michael Lewis"

Hagen's "Tweet Science"

Williams's "Ten Things to Do Before this Article Is Finished"

FALL 2011 ISSUE (Vol 5, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Hitchens's "Topic of Cancer"

McPhee's's "Spin Right and Shoot Left"

Rosenbaum's "Shakespeare in Rewrite"

Wallace's "Federer as Religious Experience"

SUMMER 2011 ISSUE (Vol 5, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Heffernan's "Anchor Woman"

Packer's "Dickens in Lagos"

Rice's "Miss Grundy Was Fired Today"

SPRING 2011 ISSUE (Vol 5, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

McPhee's "Checkpoints"

Rosenbaum's "Stumpy Versus Lucille"

WINTER 2011 ISSUE (Vol 5, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Mamet's "Driver's Ed"

Malcolm's "Iphegenia in Forest Hills"

FALL 2010 ISSUE (Vol 4, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Burns's "What Cats Know About War"

Hastings's "The Runaway General"

The Economist's "Pushtunwali: Honour Among Them"

SUMMER 2010 ISSUE (Vol 4, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Dickens's "On Duty With Inspector Fields"

Chivers's "When Afghans Seek Medical Aid, Tough Choices for U.S."

SPRING 2010 ISSUE (Vol 4, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Williams's "Finding Dolly Freed"

Paterniti's "Eating Jack Hooker's Cow"

WINTER 2010 ISSUE (Vol 4, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

DeGregory's "The Girl in the Window"

FALL 2009 ISSUE (Vol 3, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Crane's "In the Depths of a Coal Mine"

Grunberg's "On Armies, War and an Aging Israel"

Jones's "The Things That Carried Him"

Junod's "The Loved Ones"

Konigsberg's "Prairie Fire"

SUMMER 2009 ISSUE (Vol 3, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Buford's "Carnal Knowledge"

French's "Angels & Demons"

Malan's "AIDS in Africa"

Wright's "The Killer Elite"

SPRING 2009 ISSUE (Vol 3, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Legge's "Clubland"

WINTER 2009 ISSUE (Vol 3, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Boo's "Swamp Nurse"

Tosches's "If You Knew Sushi"

FALL 2008 ISSUE (Vol 2, No 4) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Raghavan's "Anguish in the Ruins of Mutanabi Street"

SUMMER 2008 ISSUE (Vol 2, No 3) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Blais's "In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle"

Preston's "The Mountains of Pi"

SPRING 2008 ISSUE (Vol 2, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Paterniti's "Driving Mr. Albert"

WINTER 2008 ISSUE (Vol 2, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Sheeler's "Final Salute"

Tietz's "The Boy Who Loved Transit"

FALL 2007 ISSUE (Vol 1, No 2) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Hull's "A Better Life"

Boo's "The Marriage Cure"

SUMMER 2007 ISSUE (Vol 1, No 1) - Below are commendable examples of literary journalism.

Scott Anderson's "Prisoners of War"

Langewiesche's "City of Fear"

Paterniti's "The Long Fall of One-Eleven Heavy"

Link to the web site of the IALJS:

IALJS Home Page> - A variety of information on the association is available here.

Links to a variety of other information:

The Best Magazine Pieces - A web site, CoolTools, which lists users' nominees for the best magazine or long-form journalism. It includes both historical and contemporary recommendations.

Longform.Org - A very interesting site dedicated to the posting of daily examples for contemporary long-form journalism.

Narrative Magazine - A web site, in a magazine format, that focuses on literary (or narrative) journalism.

Nieman Narrative Digest - A very useful resource, filled with information about literary (or narrative) journalism, hosted by the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University.

A Historical Bibliography - An impressive historical bibliography of literary journalism, originally published as an appendix in Norman H. Sims, True Stories: A Century of Literary Journalism (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2007).

Best American Journalism of the 20th Century - A highly subjective but nonetheless interesting list compiled by a panel of experts assembled by the Department of Journalism at New York University.

Best American Journalism of the First Decade of the 21st Century - Another highly subjective but nonetheless interesting list compiled by a panel of experts assembled by the Department of Journalism at New York University.