Tag Archives: Journalism
Holidays in Hell
by P. J. O'Rourke“A spin with P.J. O’Rourke is like a ride in the back of an old pickup over unpaved roads. You get where you’re going…
Gritos
by Dagoberto Gilb“[Gritos] is a collection about prejudice and pride, told with the flair of a storyteller known for his fiction. . . . [Gilb’s] prose…
The Face of War
by Martha Gellhorn“A brilliant anti-war book that is as fresh as if written for this morning. Seldom can a correspondent assemble past writings from various locations…
Beyond the Game
by Gary Smith“A book you should read . . . Smith weaves stories of heroes and anti-heroes alike with grace and compassion, getting inside his subjects…
The Best of Plimpton
by George Plimpton“Plimpton, the professional amateur, the dashing public hero, is first and best a writer.” –The New Yorker
The Beholder’s Eye
by Walt Harrington“Aims to dispel the old journalistic clich”: that a journalist writing about him/herself is always ‘self-indulgent and, quite likely, narcissistic.” He couldn’t have put together a better lineup of writers to make the point that it doesn’t have to be. . . . Not just some of the country’s finest…
American Gangster
by Mark Jacobson“Whether covering the high life or lowlifes, Jacobson boasts a novelistic eye and muscular prose in the tradition of urban chroniclers like Joseph Mitchell,…
Al-Jazeera
by Hugh Miles“A detailed, absorbing look at the organization, the world it covers and the international media. . . . In describing Al Jazeera’s rise, Miles illuminates the shaky balance the channel has attempted to strike between Arab thought and Western influences.” –Publishers Weekly…
