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The Art of Fact by Kevin Kerrane
The Art of Fact by Kevin Kerrane







The Art of Fact by Kevin Kerrane

The editors position Daniel Defoe's The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild (1725) as the prototype for the true-crime narrative.

The Art of Fact by Kevin Kerrane

In this compendious volume spanning 372 years, the editors focus on the evolution of New Journalism, a term which, we learn, "was originally coined by Matthew Arnold in 1887 to describe the style of Stead's Pall Mall Gazette: brash, vivid, personal, reform-minded, and-occasionally, from Arnold's conservative viewpoint-'featherbrained.'" Kevin Kerrane and Ben Yagoda, journalists and journalism teachers, saw a need for a textbook that celebrated and organized outstanding examples of literary journalism.









The Art of Fact by Kevin Kerrane