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Mutant Journalism: How to Read Wisconsin Death Trip
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Sunday, May 4, 2014. How to Read Wisconsin Death Trip. The following are reading notes I made for my Dartmouth College course "Raising the Dead," a creative writing and reading course in experimental nonfictions. I teach one of the books that introduced me to the genre, Wisconsin Death Trip. There are many possibilities. These are a few of them. We begin with a horse. Or rather, a cropped photograph of a horse, a picture of part of a horse. Which part? We read the introduction. We learn that there wi...
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Mutant Journalism: The Creation Myth of 20th Century Fundamentalism
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Creation Myth of 20th Century Fundamentalism. The Family , but I ended up cutting it. I always meant to come back to it. The oft-told tale of the 1925 Scopes “Monkey” trial, the creation myth of 20. But neither Darrow nor Bryan was as nimble as the famously acid H.L. Mencken, writing for The Baltimore Evening Sun. As if it was history. A myth’s power lies not in its details but in its meaning, and the essence of this story was so immediately plain that even fundament...Crowd, ...
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Mutant Journalism: February 2014
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Friday, February 7, 2014. Moscow and St. Petersburg: Queer Pictures. Hired a first-rate photojournalist, Yuri Kozyrev. To take photographs to accompany my story in the February 2014 issue, "Inside the Iron Closet.". As a form of notes, I took snapshots with my phone. Following are a few of them, along with some of the stories I couldn't fit into the magazine. I don't think there is homophobia in Russia," he says, "because I always carry a gun.". 8221; says Nikolai. “Da! 8221; I’m looking at his puf...
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Mutant Journalism: I'm reading tonight
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Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Vermonters, New Hampshirites - I hope you'll join me if you can tonight at Norwich Bookstore in Norwich, VT, at 7 pm, where I'll be reading from my new book, Radiant Truths. Here's a link to the store. From which you can buy the book, or other books. I made some books. 2008: Six months on the NYT bestseller list. Enabled me to buy a used Nissan Sentra from my step-mother-in-law. Sweet Heaven When I Die. An anthology of literary journalism. Article "Inside the Iron Closet.".
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Mutant Journalism: December 2013
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Tuesday, December 24, 2013. Generic differences are not simply formal differences. They are cultural constructs and reflect those most fundamental assumptions about the nature of reality, including the nature of the person and the nature of language.". Vincent Crapanzano, Tuhami: Portrait of a Moroccan. Chicago, 1980). I wish I'd remembered this statement when I was trying to explain "creative nonfiction" in my tenure statement. Saturday, December 21, 2013. On Filing, 2013. A note I wrote last night:.
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Mutant Journalism: July 2015
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Thursday, July 23, 2015. Art as Moral Failing. Friend writes: "Remind me hat the phase of writing nonfiction where you think everything is shit and bears no similarity to what you had so beautifully in your mind is not the end of the story? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I made some books. 2008: Six months on the NYT bestseller list. Enabled me to buy a used Nissan Sentra from my step-mother-in-law. Sweet Heaven When I Die. An anthology of literary journalism. Article "Inside the Iron Closet.". Killing the ...
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Mutant Journalism: February 2015
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Thursday, February 19, 2015. Some recent work: "A Resourceful Woman,". An Instagram essay published on Longreads. This is the work I've been most invested in these past couple of months, the kind of reporting that brought me to the genre of literary journalism in the first place, the kind of reporting that's almost impossible in most magazines. I published six related shorter Instagram essays, installments, in a sense, in a larger essay called "#Nightshift," in a number of venues: Longreads. 2008: Six mo...
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Mutant Journalism: September 2013
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Monday, September 23, 2013. In (Very Mild) Defense of Walter White / New Work / Werner Herzog / Charlie Rose [UPDATED]. I've just published some new essays. The one I'm proudest of, "Voice and Hammer," a long profile of Harry Belafonte in old age for Virginia Quarterly Review. Probably won't be online. So you should subscribe. There's another work of literary journalism, "Ditto Boys,". Published by my friends at Killing the Buddha. As well as Salon. And for Literary Journalism Studies. Last, a recap, by ...
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Mutant Journalism: New Work
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Thursday, February 19, 2015. Some recent work: "A Resourceful Woman,". An Instagram essay published on Longreads. This is the work I've been most invested in these past couple of months, the kind of reporting that brought me to the genre of literary journalism in the first place, the kind of reporting that's almost impossible in most magazines. I published six related shorter Instagram essays, installments, in a sense, in a larger essay called "#Nightshift," in a number of venues: Longreads. 2008: Six mo...
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Mutant Journalism: Moscow & St. Petersburg: Queer Pictures
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Friday, February 7, 2014. Moscow and St. Petersburg: Queer Pictures. Hired a first-rate photojournalist, Yuri Kozyrev. To take photographs to accompany my story in the February 2014 issue, "Inside the Iron Closet.". As a form of notes, I took snapshots with my phone. Following are a few of them, along with some of the stories I couldn't fit into the magazine. I don't think there is homophobia in Russia," he says, "because I always carry a gun.". 8221; says Nikolai. “Da! 8221; I’m looking at his puf...
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