Global Literary Journalism

Richard Lance Keeble (PhD, City University) is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln and currently Acting Head of the Lincoln School of Journalism. He is the winner of the National Teaching Fellowship 2011 - the highest award for teachers in higher education in the UK. He is the author and editor of 21 books including The Newspapers Handbook (2005, fourth edition); Ethics for Journalists (2008, second edition); and The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007, with Sharon Wheeler). He is also the joint editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. John Tulloch is Professor of Journalism and Head of the School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Media Policy, Regulation and Ethics (CEMPRE). From 1997-2003 he was Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Westminster. He has taught, designed and validated journalism programmes in a number of international settings including India, Yemen, Oman, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and nine European countries. Prof. Tulloch has edited two books and authored numerous journal articles and chapters on media subjects.

Contents: Introduction: John Tulloch/Richard Lance Keeble: Mind the Gaps: On the Fuzzy Boundaries between the Literary and the Journalistic – David Abrahamson/Ibrahim N. Abusharif: Literary Journalism in the Middle East: The Paradox of Arabic Exceptionalism – John Tulloch: Journalism as a Novel; the Novel as Journalism: The Writing of Gordon Burn – Thomas B. Connery: Searching and Seeing with Joseph Mitchell, Fact-Chasing Visionary – Anna Hoyles: Pickled Herrings and Politics: The Early Journalism of Moa Martinson – Maria Lassila-Merisalo: Veikko Ennala: Taboo-breaker in Mid-20th-century Finland – Rod Whiting: Ernest Hemingway: Stretching the Style Guide – Susan Greenberg: Kapuscinski and Beyond: The Polish School of Reportage – Rupert Hildyard: Literary Journalism, John Lanchester and the Global Financial Crash of 2008 – Nick Nuttall: Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson and the First Person Plural – Jenny McKay: Åsne Seierstad and The Bookseller of Kabul – Robert Alexander: Staying News: Subjects, Types and the Literariness of Literary Journalism – Norman Sims: The Personal and the Historical: Literary Journalism and Literary History – Michael Foley: The Reporting of Edmond O’Donovan: Literary Journalism and the Great Game – Richard Lance Keeble: The War Reporting of Robert Fisk: Relentlessly Exposing the Horror – Miles Maguire: When the Newspaper Form Falls Short: The War Memoir of Dexter Filkins – Bill Reynolds: From Cold War Cultural Critic to Mocking Liberals: Canadian Writer-Editor Robert Fulford’s Long Journey – Alice Donat Trindade: Lush Words in the Drought: The Literary Journalism of Pedro Cardoso – Pablo Calvi: José Martí and the Chronicles That Created Modern Latin America – Jane Chapman: From India’s Big Dams to Jungle Guerillas: Arundhati Roy and the Literary Polemics of Global versus Local – Alex Lockwood: «Recruiting the Imagination»: The Environmental Literary Journalism of Rachel Carson – Giulia Bruna: John Millington Synge’s Travel Journalism: Reporting from the Fringes of Revival Ireland – Florian Zollmann: John Pilger’s «Youth in Action» as an Example of Literary Journalism – Susan Greenberg: Slow Journalism in the Digital Fast Lane – Martin Conboy: Afterword: Between the Liminal and the Literary.

«This text uses literary journalism as a prism through which to critique journalism past and present, bringing journalism face to face with important critical debates facing not only societies in general but aspiring journalists. I would wholeheartedly recommend this book to all journalists, consumers of journalism and anybody concerned with the potential of this most varied of cultural products» (Martin Conboy, Professor of Journalism History, Sheffield University)