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One might have guessed that his star had blazed and faded. Dead for more than two decades, his best-known book little more than a memory, Truman Capote, it seemed, had gone the way of Rachel Carson. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, director Bennett Miller resurrected the reputation of the one-time literary celebrity, turning the story of his research for In Cold Blood into one of the most acclaimed films of 2005. Another film by another director followed, as did a new edition of his best-known novel. Just like that, Capote was back.
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Ann Reilly Dowd, “The Great Pretender,” Columbia Journalism-Review 37 (July/August 1998): 14–15.
Ivor Shapiro, “Why They Lie: Probing the Explanations for Journalistic Cheating,” Canadian Journal of Communication 31 (2006): 261–66
Ron F. Smith, Groping for Ethics in Journalism (Ames: Iowa State Press, 2003), 135
Benjamin Hill and Alan Schwarz, “Errors Cast Doubt on a Baseball Memoir,” New york Times, March 2, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/03/sports/baseball/03book.html
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Ronald Zboray provides an extensive discussion of these and other factors in A Fictive People: Antebellum Economic Development and the American Reading Public (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993). I explore developments such as these in greater depth in chapters 1 and 2.
Edwin Emery and Michael Emery, The Press and America: An Interpretive History of the Mass Media (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1984), 135, 140–46
Frank Luther Mott, American Journalism: A History: 1690–1960 (New York: Macmillan, 1962), 304
See also Alfred McClung Lee, The Daily Newspaper in America: The Evolution of a Social Instrument (New York: Macmillan, 1947), 63–64.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Ralph Waldo Emerson (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), 115.
Doug Underwood, Journalism and the Novel: Truth and Fiction, 1700–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 3–14
Shelley Fisher Fishkin, From Fact to Fiction: Journalism & Imaginative Writing in America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), 55
Edgar M. Branch, introduction to Early Tales & Sketches (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979), 26
David S. Reynolds, Beneath the American Renaissance (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988)
Michael Robertson, Stephen Crane, Journalism, and the Making of Modern American Literature (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997)
Fred Fedler, Media Hoaxes (Ames, LA: Iowa State University Press, 1989); Roggenkamp, Narrating the News.
Jerome McGann, “Rethinking the Center, Remapping the Culture: Poe and the American Renaissance” (panel discussion at the Edgar A. Poe Bicentennial Symposium, Charlottesville, VA, April 3–4, 2009).
Philip Bennett, interview with Frank Stasio, The State of Things, North Carolina Public Radio, 12 October 2009, http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/search_media?review_state=published&start.query:record:list:date=2009-10-12%2023%3A59%3A59&start.range: record=max&end.query:record:list:date=2009-10-12%2000% 3A00%3A00&end.range:record=min&path=/websites/wuncplone_webslingerz_com/tsot/archive&month:int=10&year:int=2009. Bennett was responding to Stasio, who, alluding to the failure of investigative journalism to resonate with audiences, asked, “Do we have to find a different way to tell stories, or do we give up?” After answering in the affirmative, Bennett added, “I don’t know what that way is. I think we need to feel our way towards it. I think we’re sort of stuck in a rhythm that was established a generation ago with New Journalism and devices that were used for long-form narrative writing that have scarcely received an update, even though the world of communications and technology has changed so dramatically.”
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Canada, M. (2011). Introduction: A Sibling Rivalry in American Letters. In: Literature and Journalism in Antebellum America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118591_1
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