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Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deep (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
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Description for Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deep (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
Paperback. Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CBV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, have made him one of the premier practitioners of immersion reporting. In immersion reporting a literary cousin to ethnography, travel writing, and memoir the writer fully steps into a new world or culture, participating in its trials, rites, and rituals as a member of the group. The end results of these firsthand experiences are familiar ... Read more
Over three and a half decades, Ted Conover has ridden the rails with hoboes, crossed the border with Mexican immigrants, guarded prisoners in Sing Sing, and inspected meat for the USDA. His books and articles chronicling these experiences, including the award-winning Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing, have made him one of the premier practitioners of immersion reporting. In immersion reporting a literary cousin to ethnography, travel writing, and memoir the writer fully steps into a new world or culture, participating in its trials, rites, and rituals as a member of the group. The end results of these firsthand experiences are familiar ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing and Publishing
Condition
New
Weight
248g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226113067
SKU
V9780226113067
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Ted Conover is a journalist and associate professor of journalism at New York University. His book Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2000 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Conover is also the author of Rolling Nowhere: Riding the Rails with America's Hoboes; Coyotes: A Journey Across Borders with America's Mexican Migrants; ... Read more
Reviews for Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deep (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
A vital, engrossing guide that is, in essence, an intimate conversation with a master of the form. This book is absolutely essential for writers of creative nonfiction, and a fascinating look inside the process for any reader.
Susan Orlean author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend and The Orchid Thief Ted Conover was one of three ... Read more
Susan Orlean author of Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend and The Orchid Thief Ted Conover was one of three ... Read more