Description
A deeply satisfying collection of reflections on nonfiction writing. The result is a wealth of history exciting to reencounter and a richness of matured analysis that is equally stirring. -- Vivian Gornick, essayist and critic
About the Author
James Marcus is deputy editor of Harper's Magazine and author of Amazonia: Five Years at the Epicenter of the Dot-Com Juggernaut. His work has appeared in many publications, including The Nation, The Los Angeles Times, The Harvard Review, The Paris Review, and Best American Essays 2009. The Columbia Journalism Review, founded in 1961 under the auspices of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, is one of the world's most respected resources for media criticism and commentary.
Reviews
Let us now praise forgotten nonfiction. It is the fate of great journalism, perhaps, to fade away just a few decades after appearing. Yet that leaves for us the pleasures of rediscovery, which the essays collected in Second Read bring off in superb style. -- Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew and What's the Matter with Kansas? A book of journalism about books of journalism that are worth reading twice? The essays here honor their subject in the best possible way: they are so good, so rich, and so finely written, they deserve to be read again. -- David Hajdu, music critic for The New Republic and professor of journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism contemporary journalists offer fresh looks at the work of previous generations in this rich collection.Daily News Daily News Second Read carries value for any writer, whether oft-published or a novice or in between. -- Steve Weinberg Writer
Book Information
ISBN 9780231159319
Author James Marcus
Format Paperback
Page Count 208
Imprint Columbia University Press
Publisher Columbia University Press