Part I
1. A Third Way to Tell the Story: American Literary Journalism at the Turn of the Century, by Thomas B. Connery
2. Hemingway’s Permanent Records, by Ronald Weber
3. The Mother of Literature: Journalism and The Grapes of Wrath, by William Howarth
4. Joseph Mitchell and The New Yorker Nonfiction Writers, by Norman Sims
5. The Politics of The New Journalism, by John J. Pauly
Part II
6. The Borderlands of Culture: Writing by W. E. B. Du Bois, James Agee, Tillie Olsen, and Gloria Anzaldúa, by Shelley Fisher Fishkin
7. The Politics of the Plain Style, by Hugh Kenner
8. The New Journalism and the Image-World, by David Eason
9. John McPhee Balances the Act, by Kathy Smith
Part III
10. Artists in Uniform, by Mary McCarthy
11. Settling the Colonel’s Hash, by Mary McCarthy
12. Unsettling the Colonel’s Hash: ‘Fact’ in Autobiography, by Darrel Mansell
Selected Bibliography
Contributors