Reading Narrative Journalism (2024)

Some of the Journalists and Texts Covered in this site

  • Nina Bernstein,  The Lost Children of Wilder (New York: Vintage Books, 2002)
  • Nellie Bly,  Ten Days in a Mad-House   online at  http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/bly/madhouse/madhouse.html
  • Katherine Boo,  Behind the Beautiful Forevers (New York:  Random House, 2012)
  • Geraldine Brooks,  Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women  (New York: Anchor Hardcover, 1995)
  • Thomas J.  Byrne, Professional Criminals of America (New York:  G.W. Dillingham 1895.
  • Ted Conover,  Newjack:  Guarding Sing Sing (New York:  Random House, 2000)
  • Stephen Crane, “When Man Falls, a Crowd Gathers.” Stephen Crane: Prose and Poetry. Ed. J.C. Levenson. New York: Library of America, 1996, 600-604.    
  • __________ . Maggie A Girl of the Streets, same volume, 5-78.
  • __________ .“War Memories,” Wounds in the Rain (London: Methuen & Co., 1900)
  • Leon Dash, Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America (New York: Basic Books, 1996).
  • Jason DeParle,  American Dream:  Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation’s Drive to End Welfare  (New York: Penguin, 2005).
  • Joan Didion,   Miami (New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1987)
  • __________ . Salvador  (New York:  Simon and Schuster, 1982)
  • __________ . Slouching Towards Bethlehem (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968)
  • Dave Eggers,  Zeitoun  (San Francisco : Mcsweeney’s Books, 2009)
  • Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed:  On (not) Getting By in America (New York:  Metropolitan Books, 2001)
  • Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down:   a Hmong child, her American doctors, and the collision of two cultures   (New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998)
  • Dexter Filkins, The Forever War  (New York:  Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)Fink, Sherri.  Five Days at Memorial:  Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital  (New York:  Crown Publishers, 2013
  • David Finkel, The Good Soldiers (New York:  Sarah Crichton Books, 2009).
  • __________ . Thank You For Your Service  (New York:  Sarah Crichton Books/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013_
  • William Finnegan, Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country (New York:  Random House, 1998)
  • George Foster, New York by Gas-Light.  Ed. Stuart Blumin   (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990)Frey, James. A Million Little Pieces (New York:  Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 2003)
  • Jennifer Gonnerman, Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett  (New York:  Picador, 2004)
  • Philip Gourevitch,  A Cold Case (New York: Picador, 2002).
  • Michael Herr, Dispatches  (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1977).
  • John Hersey, Hiroshima  (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1946).
  • Alex Kotlowitz, There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing up in the Other America.  (New York:  Doubleday, 1991)
  • Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family:  love, drugs, trouble, and coming of age in the Bronx  (New York:  Scribner, 2003).
  • Peter Maas,   Serpico: The Cop Who Defied the System (New York:  Viking Press, 1973).
  • Norman Mailer,  Armies of the Night:  History as a Novel, the Novel as History  (New York:  New American Library, 1968)
  • Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer.  (New York: Knopf, 1990)
  • Sonia Nazario, Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother (New York: Random House, 2006).
  • George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1961)
  • George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (New York: FSG, 2013).
  • Nicholas Pileggi,  Wise Guy:  Life in a Mafia Family  (New York: Pocket Books, 1985)
  • Margaret Randall, Sandino’s Daughters: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle  Vancouver ; Toronto : New Star Books, 1981)
  • Nick Reding, Methland
  • Jacob Riis,  How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York  (New York: Hill and Wang, 1957.
  • __________ . The Making of an American (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1906)
  • Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness:  Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market  (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
  • Hunter Thompson.  Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (New York: Vintage Books, 1998)
  • Helen Thorpe, Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three Women at Home and at War  (New York: Scribner, 2014).
  • William Vollmann, Poor People (New York: Ecco, 2007)
  • Isabel Wilkerson,The Warmth of Other Suns:  The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration (New York: Random House, 2010)