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Searching for the Perfect Title: Madeleine Blais on 'The Heart Is an Instrument' and 'Uphill Walkers'
A series from award-winning authors and teachers of writing literary journalism on what they learned from the experience of titling their books.
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Madeleine Blais
Searching for the Perfect Title: Deborah Campbell on 'This Heated Place' and 'A Disappearance in Damascus'
A series from award-winning authors and teachers of writing literary journalism on what they learned from the experience of titling their books.
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Deborah Campbell
Searching for the Perfect Title: Pamela Newkirk on 'Spectacle' and 'Within the Veil'
A series from award-winning authors and teachers of writing literary journalism on what they learned from the experience of titling their books.
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Pamela Newkirk
The Orgy Next Door: Ethical Relationships in Gay Talese's 'Thy Neighbor's Wife' and 'The Voyeur's Motel'
On the balance between loyalty to the reader and to the investigated subject or community, and the need for self-awareness in literary journalism.
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Julie Wheelwright
Searching for the Perfect Title: Ted Conover on 'Rolling Nowhere,' 'Coyotes,' and 'Newjack'
A series from award-winning authors and teachers of writing literary journalism on what they learned from the experience of titling their books.
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Ted Conover

November 2021

Searching for the Perfect Title: Michael Norman on 'These Good Men' and 'Tears in the Darkness'
A series from award-winning authors and teachers of writing literary journalism on what they learned from the experience of titling their books.
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Michael Norman
Searching for the Perfect Title: Amy Wilentz on 'The Rainy Season' and 'Martyrs' Crossing'
A series from award-winning authors and teachers of writing literary journalism on what they learned from the experience of titling their books.
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Amy Wilentz
Indigenous Literary Journalism, Saturation Reporting, and the Aesthetics of Experience
On the power of two award-winning features by Mohawk journalist Dan David.
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Bill Reynolds
Writing From the (Indigenous) Edge: Journeys Into the Native American Experience
Two classic books apply the tools of literary journalism to render Native American life in personal, culturally nuanced, and deeply observed narratives.
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John Coward
The Tech Threat: Literary Journalism in the Age of Interruption
Digital tools can benefit their users as long as they do not overpower personal relationships and social bonds.
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Jacqueline Marino
Seeking 'Debwewin': Literary Journalism Through an Indigenous Lens
Interpreting works of literary journalism through an Anishinaabe analytical framework for truth.
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Duncan McCue

October 2021

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