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This book makes a major contribution to literary journalism scholarship, with a pathbreakingly broad international focus and commendable attention to developing a conceptual framework.--Nancy Roberts, University of Albany, SUNY Literary journalism is a unique and difficult to define concept, as many writers come together to provide an intellectual breakdown of what it means and where it is going in the future. Literary Journalism Across the Globe is an excellent and scholarly addition to any literary criticism collection.--Midwest Book Review This intelligently edited collection of sixteen essays provides not only the first scholarly survey of the field of international literary journalism but also a rudimentary map for future scholars to follow, enhance, and refine. . . .Literary Journalism across the Globe is an important book, a significant scholarly contribution to the field of literary journalism studies.--Literary Journalism Studies It is a thoughtful, scholarly examination of the genre that includes essays by some of the US's leading lights in the field. . . . What makes this collection unique is that it looks at the wider aspects of literary journalism in essays that examine theory, history, and the influences and/or uniqueness of the form across the globe. Highly recommended.--Choice The international scope of this book might boggle the minds of readers whose exposure to literary journalism has been limited to the new Journalism of the 1960s and 1970s America and writers such as Tom Wolfe, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, Gay Talese, and Hunter Thompson.--H-Net Reviews

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John S. Bak is professor of American literature at Nancy-Université in France. ||Bill Reynolds is assistant professor at the School of Journalism, Ryerson University, Toronto.

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