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Preceding the New Journalism

CJR’s Michael Shapiro contends that the “modern age of Journalism as Literature” began in 1957 with the publication of Cornelius Ryan’s D-Day retelling, The Longest Day. (Via & via.)

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Marie Mockett reads at Chapters

I’ll be introducing Marie Mockett when she reads this Friday, May 21, along with the young writers of Girls Write Now, as part of our Chapters series at the Center for Fiction. Her novel, Picking Bones From Ash, was recently shortlisted for the Saroyan International Prize and is concerned with the unique power and difficulties of talented girls. “There must . . .

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Fixed, steady twoness

What did Jesus do?: Gopnik on the never-ending effort to separate “the inspiration from the intolerance, nice Jesus from nasty Jesus.”

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