The Art of Fact in the Digital Age

An Anthology of New Literary Journalism

Jacqueline Marino (Anthology Editor) , David O. Dowling (Anthology Editor)

The Art of Fact in the Digital Age

An Anthology of New Literary Journalism

Jacqueline Marino (Anthology Editor) , David O. Dowling (Anthology Editor)

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The Art of Fact in the Digital Age is a showcase of the most powerful and moving journalism of the past 25 years.

Selections include stories originally published in established bastions of literary journalism (The New York Times, The Atlantic and The New Yorker), as well as those from specialized and online publications (Runner's World, The Atavist). It features writers of extraordinary style (including Carina del Valle Schorske, Brian Phillips, and Jia Tolentino), as well as those who have profoundly influenced public discourse on the 21st century's most urgent issues: Mitchell S. Jackson, Clint Smith, and Ta-Nehisi Coates on race; Susan Dominus and Luke Mogelson on migration; and Kathryn Schulz and David Wallace-Wells on environmental threats. It even includes one story that expanded literary journalism's repertoire into audio (This American Life).

This collection, assembled for students, scholars, and practitioners alike, also charts the evolution of digital longform journalism through its greatest achievements, from transitioning readers to screens to the integration of multimedia with words in service of meaning. The art of fact in the 21st century opened new ranges of expression to address such issues, while uniquely bearing the imprint of their generation's digital cultures and technologies. Although many forces compete for attention in the digital age, story triumphs. The works in this anthology show us why.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Part I: Digital Longform Journalism Pioneers
Black Hawk Down (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Mark Bowden

Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek (New York Times Magazine)
John Branch

Leading up to 6:01: The Last 32 Hours of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (The Commercial Appeal)
Marc Perrusquia

Firestorm: The Story of the Bushfire at Dunalley (The Guardian)
Jon Henley and Laurence Topham

The Displaced (New York Times Magazine)
Susan Dominus

The Jessica Simulation: Love and Loss in the Age of A.I. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jason Fagone

Part II: Notable Narratives
The Reckoning (Texas Monthly)
Pamela Colloff

The Bones of Marianna (Atavist Magazine)
David Kushner

After the Last Border (Viking, 2021)
Jessica Goudeau

Who is Matty Healy? (The New Yorker)
Jia Tolentino

The Out Crowd (NPR)
Emily Green

Part III: Showing and Telling
The Case for Reparations (The Atlantic)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bodies on the Line (The New York Times)
Carina del Valle Schorske

Twelve Minutes and a Life (Runner's World)
Mitchell S. Jackson

Out in the Great Alone (Grantland)
Brian Phillips

Part IV: The Reporter Takes the Stage
The Mastermind (The Atavist)
Evan Ratliff

The Dream Boat (New York Times)
Luke Mogelson

My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard (Mother Jones)
Shane Bauer

Love in the Time of Robots (Wired and Epic Magazine)
Alex Mar

Part V: Confronting the Unspeakable
How the Word is Passed (Little, Brown and Company, 2021)
Clint Smith

The Really Big One (The New Yorker)
Kathryn Schulz

The Uninhabitable Earth (New York Magazine)
David Wallace-Wells

Dispatches from Ukraine (AGNI)
Tetiana Troitskaya, Olha Poliukhovych, and Iryna Slavinska

Selected Bibliography

Index

Product details

Published	18 Apr 2024
Format	Ebook (PDF)
Edition	1st
Pages	264
ISBN	9798765107881
Imprint	Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Anthology Editor

Jacqueline Marino

Jacqueline Marino is Professor in Kent State Unive…

Anthology Editor

David O. Dowling

David O. Dowling is Professor in the School of Jou…

In 1997, Kevin Kerrane and I published The Art of Fact: A Historical Anthology of Literary Journalism. A great deal of stellar journalism has been produced in the more than a quarter of a century since then, and The Art of Fact in the Digital Age is an outstanding compendium of the best of the best. Jaqueline Marino and David O. Dowling have wisely and judiciously selected a group of pieces that shows the remarkable range-in subject matter, approach, style, and format-of today's standout journalists. Highly recommended for anyone who aspires to join their ranks, or merely wants to appreciate the state of the journalistic art.

Ben Yagoda, Professor of English, Emeritus, University of Delaware, USA, and author of About Town: The New Yorker (2000) and the World It Made and The Sound on the Page: Style and Voice in Writing (2005)
Captivating, moving, breathtaking: who said textbooks can't be page-turners? This volume heralds a new wave of literary journalism, vividly illustrating how to 'make facts dance' in the digital era. Along the way, a new genre is established and canonized: digital literary journalism at its best.

Tobias Eberwein, President of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS), Austria
Jacqueline Marino and David O. Dowling's compelling new anthology demonstrates the way literary journalism has endured and changed in the digital age. The texts highlighted here show the impact of technical innovation on the form, while confirming good writing still lies at its heart. Presented by the authors with informative introductions to the stories, the collection illustrates how successful the marriage of commanding storytelling and digital technology can be, while describing a significant new wave in literary journalism's ongoing evolution.

Willa McDonald, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University, Australia, and Vice-President, International Association of Literary Journalism Studies
Whether you are a practitioner looking to enhance your digital repertoire by seeing what others have done, or just an avid consumer of fact-based narratives, The Art of Fact in the Digital Age is sure to give you much to explore and think about.

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