Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms, but it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This book is a journey from tumbleweed and American Indian tepees to the house where Bonnie and Clyde did their dirty work to the scene of the murders i[...]
"New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of the Year
A "Boston Globe" Best Book of 2010
A "Christian Science Monitor" Best Book of 2010
A "San Francisco Chronicle" Top 10 Books of 2010
A" Washington Post" Best Book of the Year
A "Kansas City Star "100 Best Books of 2010
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A deeply Malcolmian volume on painters, photographers, writers, and critics
Janet Malcolm's "In the Freud Archives "and "The Journalist and the Murderer," as well as her books""about Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in""the realm of nonfiction--as is the title essay of this""collec[...]
Janet Malcolm's In the Freud Archives and The Journalist and the Murderer, as well as her biographies of Sylvia Plath and Gertrude Stein, are canonical in the realm of nonfiction - as is the title essay of this collection, with its forty-one "false starts," or serial attempts to capture the essence [...]