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The social quality of IALJS conferences hasalways attracted me. At our wonderfulmeeting in Paris in May, I saw friends

that I first met right after my undergraduateeducation—ChuckWhitney and Iworked togetherfor a while at UPIin Minneapolis—aswell as friends Ihave met throughthis organization.

We have moreopportunities toget together beforenext year’s gather-ing in Minneapolis.Josh Roiland hasorganized a panelfor the AEJMCmeeting, 6-9 August

2014 in Montreal. John Bak and DavidAbrahamson have drawn together a roundtable to discuss “Literary Journalism:Explaining Second Cities to Themselves” at theESSE meeting in Kosice, Slovakia, on 1September. And Rob Alexander will shortly besending out a call for papers for the 2015ACLA meeting.

Becoming president of IALJS is ahumbling honor. I want to thank everyone whohas made the organization work so well overthe years. Bill Dow and his crew from theAmerican University of Paris did a great job onIALJS-9. Amy Wilentz gave a fascinatingkeynote, and I hope we see her again at futureconferences.

I want to thank Bill Reynolds for histerm as president. Fortunately for us, Bill willcontinue his service as editor of our journal,Literary Journalism Studies. He takes over fromJohn Hartsock, who has shaped a publication

that can beextremely valu-able to seniorscholars, toemergingscholars and tothose trying tofigure out whatwe’re talkingabout here.

And I wantto thank DavidAbrahamson,who called meup one day at home in 2007 to tell meabout this new international organizationdevoted to scholarship on literary jour-nalism. He asked me to give the keynoteaddress at the conference in Paris. I owe alot to David, as does this organization.

He’s been a force of Nature. I want to per-sonally thank him.

Next year we’ll be in Minnesotaat the University of St. Thomas. If Paris isthe city of lights, then Minneapolis is thecity of lakes. Maybe I’ll get a chance totake some of you for a paddle in a canoe.Tom Connery is organizing the gathering,which will be our 10th conference. Onthis special occasion, we can celebrate adecade of international scholarship. Ihope you can all attend.

Sadly, in recent months we losttwo treasured colleagues. John Tulloch,the former head of the school of journal-ism at the University of Lincoln inEngland, died at 67. Sam Riley, a VirginiaTech journalism professor and frequent

FUTURE SITES FORANNUAL MEETINGS

IIAALLJJSS--1100:: University of St.Thomas, Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.A,7-9 May 2015.

IIAALLJJSS--1111:: Pontifícia UniversidadeCatólica do Rio Grande do Sul, PortoAlegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 19-21May 2016).

IIAALLJJSS--1122:: Universitat deBarcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 11-13 May2017 (pending).

IIAALLJJSS--1133:: Brock University, St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 17-19 May2018 (pending).

IIAALLJJSS--1144:: University of NovaGorica, Slovenia, 9-11 May 2019 (pend-ing).

MEMBERSHIPREPORT FOR 2014We are happy to be able to report thatour association’s membership, as of 31May 2014, including all IALJS-9 atten-dees at the Paris conference, totals 149members (up from 133 last year) from22 countries around the globe. Morethat 56% are not from the U.S.

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BECOMING PRESIDENTIS A HUMBLING HONORThank you to those who went before,and a look at our bright future.

By Norman Sims,University of Massachusetts - Amherst (U.S.A.)

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Bill Dowand his crew from theAmerican University

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ABOVE, BY AN UNANIMOUS VOTE NORMAN SIMS(RIGHT), PROFESSOR EMERITUS FROMTHE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST,WAS ELECTED THE PRESIDENT OF IALJS. THE TERM OF OFFICE WILL INLCUDESERVICE FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS. THIS PHOTO CAPTURED THE RITUALMOMENT WHEN FORMERPRESIDENT BILL REYNOLDS OFRYERSON UNIVERSITYIN TORONTO, CANADAPASSED THE RARELY SEENCEREMONIAL IALJSGAVEL TO NORM.

BELOW LEFT, JOHN HARTSOCK OF SUNY, CORTLAND (U.S.A.) WAS GIVEN A

PLAQUE TO EXPRESS OUR GRATITUDEFOR HIS WONDERFUL SERVICE

AS THE FOUNDING EDITOR OF THE ASSOCIATION’S JOURNAL,

LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIES.BELOW RIGHT, BILL REYNOLDS PRESENTED

AMY WILENTZ, THE IALJS-9 KEYNOTESPEAKER WITH THE TRADITIONAL

TOKEN OF OUR APPRECIATION,THE MOLESKINE NOTEBOOK

CONTAINING A USEFUL MAP OF THECITY IN WHICH THE ANNUAL

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The ninth edition of our annual confer-ence took place at the AmericanUniversity of Paris from May 15 to 17.

A record number of participants, amongwhom many new faces, and an exceptionallocation within walking distance from theEiffel Tower, contributed to the success of the

conference. Wehad the immenseprivilege of beingwelcomed byProfessor CelesteSchenk, Presidentof the AmericanUniversity ofParis, who greetedus with a particu-larly eloquentaddress. Themorning reached

another climaxwith the inspira-tional keynote lec-ture of ProfessorAmy Wilentz, from

the University of California, at Irvine, entitled“Keeping Faith with the Truth: WritingLiterary Journalism in the Post-Print World.”The morning definitely set the tone for a fas-cinating conference.

Paris is clearly an attraction, to witthe number of proposals received: 82 propos-als (69 work-in-progress and 13 researchpaper proposals) were submitted, and weaccepted 38, which brought our acceptancerate down to 46%. The accepted proposalsoriginated from nineteen countries (France,the United States, Canada, Poland, Norway,Ireland, Greece, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal,Germany, Brazil, Slovenia, Spain, Australia,Great Britain, Sweden, Australia andFinland). IALJS is thus reaffirming its interna-tional mission of bringing together scholarsfrom across the globe.

2014 IALJS ANNUAL CONVENTION IN PARISThe American University of Paris hosts our ninth international conference.

By Isabelle Meuret, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

Literary JournalismSummer 2014 Vol 8 No 3Editors: Bill Reynolds and David AbrahamsonISSN 1941-1030 (print)ISSN 1941-1049 (online)© 2014 The Newsletter of the International Associationfor Literary Journalism Studies. All rights reserved.

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THE MAIN MEETING ROOM ATTHE AMERICAN UNIVERSITYOF PARIS FOR IALJS-9WAS THE GRAND SALON IN A VINTAGE BUILDING OWNED BY THE UNIVERSITY ON AVENUE BOSQUET. THE BEAUTIFUL ROOM HELDCLOSE TO 60 PEOPLE AND, WITH AN EXPANSIVE MURAL PAINTED ON THECEILING, IT SEEMEDLIKE THE PERFECTVENUE FOR SCHOLARLYDISCOURSE AND IMAGINATIVE DISCUSSIONSIN A UNIQUE ATMOSPHEREOF WARMTH,HOSPITALITYAND COLLEGIALITY.BY ALL AVAILABLEACCOUNTS, A SPENDID TIME WAS HAD BY ALL.

FAR LEFT, JUAN DOMINGUEZ OF THE PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DORIO GRANDE DO SUL IN PORTO ALEGRE, BRAZIL SPOKE OF HISUNIVERSITY’S PLANS TO HOST IALJS-11 IN 2016. HE POINTED OUT THATPORTO ALEGRE, A SMALL CITY BY BRAZILIAN STANDARDS,WITH A POPULATION OF ONLY 3 MILLION, ENJOYS A TEMPERATERATHER THAN TROPICAL CLIMATE. NEAR LEFT,AWARD COMMITTE CHAIR ISABEL SOARES OF THE UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA PRESENTED ROB ALEXANDER OF BROCK UNIVERSITY (CANADA) THE 2014 PRIZE FOR THEARTICLE IN THE ASSOCIATION’S LITERARYJOURNALISM NEWSLETTER. ROB’S PIECE WAS ENTITLED “A NEW PERIODICAL IS WORTHY OF ATTENTION:THE AMERICAN READER DEBUTS, AND ITS MEASURE IS TAKEN”

ABOVE LEFT, SIX UNDERGRADUATES FROM NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY’S MEDILL SCHOOL PARTICPATED IN THE CONFERENCE,INCLUDING A PAIR OF PRESENTATIONS AT FRIDAY MORNING’S “BREAKFAST FOR YOUR THOUGHTS.” ABOVE CENTER, RESEARCH CHAIR ISABELLE MEURET PRESENTS THE 2014 GREENBERG PRIZE TO CHRIS WILSON OF BOSTON COLLEGE FOR HIS PAPER “FIND EMMA LARKIN.” ABOVE RIGHT, TOM CONNERY OUTLINES THEATRTRACTIONS OF MINNEAPOLIS, WHERE HIS SCHOOL, THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. THOMASWILL HOST THE 2105 ANNUAL MEETING, IALJS-10, NEXT YEAR.


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We also received more panel pro-posals this year than for any previous IALJSconference. There were 10 panels in the finalprogram, which were organized by scholarsfrom six different countries, and includedpanelists from a total of twelve. A number ofthe panels broached topics not yet exploredin literary journalism research, among whichactivism, the digital age, justice and sexuality.Moreover, two panels were bilingual (French-English), a first and original experience tomeet prominent “local” scholars and offer anopportunity to organize panels in the lan-guage of the host country. William Dow andJohn Bak were instrumental in puttingtogether these panels and in facilitating thenetworking process. We are particularlythankful to Léonard Leung Chong Wo,Kamila Louadj and Elise Vallier, for theirexcellent translation work, kind assistance,and logistic help.

The record number of panels atIALJS-9 led to the organization of three(instead of two at previous conferences) con-current panels. This was also a first, but mod-erators reported that their panels were never-theless well attended, and that audiencesengaged and generated lively and thought-provoking discussions. Also, we weredelighted to single out the Conference HostPanel’s session, chaired this time by WilliamDow: “Literary Journalism and the Book,”and moderated by John Ferré, as well as thePresident’s Panel, “Inverting the Margins:Five Female Journalists Bring the Outside tothe Center of the World.” Bill Reynolds hadchosen to highlight the panel devoted tofemale literary journalists for the secondtime, reaffirming thereby the important con-tributions made by women to the genre.

From the diversity of our panels,we noticed some new directions. Indeed, lit-erary journalism has definitely established itsown pedigree as a discipline. Consequently,we seem to have moved beyond discussionsof the term itself and are now devoting moretime to other subjects, the challenges of thepost-print age topping the list. By way ofillustration, the panel on digital literary jour-nalism initiated by Josh Roiland and moder-ated by Roberto Herrscher, was undoubtedlyone of the conference’s highlights. A work-in-progress session, moderated by JuanDomingues, devoted to literary journalismfor and from the margins, also proved to be athought provoking and stimulating sessiongathering four young scholars. Questions ofgender, race, justice and rhetoric, were alsocentral in several discussions, while the

teaching panel, put together by John Hanc,devoted this time to the “new narratives,”has become a staple at our annual confer-ences.

This year we were also blessed withthe presence of a group of six enthusiasticundergraduate students from the MedillSchool of Journalism at NorthwesternUniversity. Alyssa Brewer, Lauren Lindstrom,Yunita Ong, Chelsea Peng, Sarah Turbin andEmily Wickwire, were all granted this amaz-ing opportunity to meet key actors in theFrench media and to join the conferencethanks to efforts of their dedicated professor,David Abrahamson. The students brilliantlypresented their ongoing research at the“Breakfast for Your Thoughts,” moderated byJosh Roiland, a unique opportunity to sharetheir work with senior researchers, amongwhom Norman Sims, Tom Connery, BillReynolds, John Hartsock, William Dow, RobAlexander and David Abrahamson. The ses-sion was also particularly well attended byan impressive number of graduate students.Many interesting views and comments wereexchanged on that occasion, around agourmet buffet of crunchy croissants,brioches and petits pains.

For the second year, IALJS has beenable to offer four awards (including cashprizes) to their members for remarkable con-tributions to research in literary journalismstudies. Four scholar prizes were granted inParis: The Greenberg prize went toChristopher P. Wilson, for best research arti-

AUP’S BILL DOW

10,000 innocent bystanders a year werekilled in cross-fires between drug dealersand police at that time in Colombia—soCartagena wasn’t my cup of tea. In theNew York Times obituary for GabrielGarcía Márquez, however, they men-tioned his brother Jaime was director ofthe “Gabriel García Márquez NewJournalism Foundation” in Cartagena.The New Journalism Foundation. Itmakes me wonder why the obituariesnever mentioned that aspect of his writ-ing.

I hope that we, as an organiza-tion, can help restore the correct history ofwriters such as Gabriel García Márquezby giving our common language a termfor what he wrote. ©

mentor to us all, died at 74. We will missthem both.

I want to mention the loss ofanother in the world of letters. GabrielGarcía Márquez died on 17 April at theage of 87. His obituaries in the New YorkTimes and on National Public Radio in theU.S. barely mentioned his journalism.Twenty years ago or so, I was a guestspeaker at a book fair in Bogotá,Colombia. I did not have to explain what“literary journalism” meant, as one wouldin the United States. They knew what lit-erary journalism meant—it was whatGabriel García Márquez did. While I wasthere, I met his brother, Jaime Abello, whoinvited me to Cartagena to teach about lit-erary journalism. I was told that about

cle; the Best Paper by a Graduate Studentprize went to William Roberts; the BestArticle in Literary Journalism Studies in 2013was awarded to Josh Roiland, and the BestArticle in the Literary Journalism newsletterwas granted to Robert Alexander.Congratulations to all of them, whose exper-tise contributes to the advancement of liter-ary journalism studies.

As Research Chair of the associa-tion, I have been honored to serve the associ-ation for two years, and I am pleased to nowhand over the position to Josh Roiland. Aftertwo years in Europe, we will be back in theWestern Hemisphere for the next two years,in Minneapolis in 2015, and then in PortoAlegre, Brazil in 2016. ©



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President Bill Reynolds called the 2014annual business meeting of theInternational Association for Literary

Journalism Studies to order at 5:03 p.m. It wasmoved and seconded to approve the minutesfrom the 2013 IALJS annual meeting atUniversity of Tampere in Finland, and themotion carried unanimously. Bill then thankedBill Dow of the American University of Parisfor his extraordinarily successful efforts as thehost of IALJS-9, and a standing ovation fol-lowed.

David Abrahamson gave the annualtreasurer’s report. The current bank balance is$54,434.54, which includes $16,022.02 in aninterest-bearing savings account and $30,149.98in certificates of deposit. There is also a $1,000balance in the association’s PayPal account.Pending accounts payable include approxi-mately $6,000 for the printing and mailing ofthe 2014 issues of the journal and $5,500expenses for IALJS-9, including $4,500 for theFriday Banquet. The association currently has149 members (up from 133 last year) from 22countries. Forty-four percent are from theUnited States, and 56 percent from nationsother than the U.S. Attendance of IALJS-9 was102, up from 57 last year.

Research Chair Isabelle Meuretreported 38 acceptances from a total of 82research paper and work-in-progress submis-sions for IALJS-9, an acceptance rate of 46 per-cent. Isabelle thanked the 2014 jury membersfor their work, as well as the members of theGreenberg Prize jury, which awarded the 2014honor to Chris Wilson of Boston College.Isabelle also presented the 2014 Prize for theBest Research Paper by a Graduate Student toWilliam Roberts of the University of Sydney.Program Chair Rob Alexander reported that 10panels (from 15 proposed) were programmedthis year. He also noted that organizing thepanels into concurrent sessions, as well as theinclusion of two bilingual panels, seemed towork well. In addition, he suggested that wecontinue to include a panel on pedagogy.

Awards Chair Isabel Soaresexplained the work of her committee andthanked its members for their work. She thenpresented two new IALJS awards: the 2014Prize for the Best Article in Literary JournalismStudies, the association’s journal, to Josh

Roiland of the University of Maine, and the2013 Prize for the Best Article in LiteraryJournalism, the association’s newsletter, to RobAlexander of Brock University. She also report-ed that altogether the four awards, includingtheir honoraria and stipends, will cost the asso-ciation $1,000 each year. Publicity ChairLindsay Morton of Avondale College(Australia) then spoke about the possibilitiespresented by social media.

Retiring Literary Journalism Studieseditor John Hartsock reported that the journal’sSpring 2014 issue (Vol. 6, No. 1) had beenmailed prior to the conference and that thejournal’s acceptance rate is a credible 33 per-cent. He was then given an appreciative plaqueby Bill Reynolds, who will succeed him.Associate editors Roberta and Miles Maguirereported they are working on the interface 0ftheir bibliography project. Nancy L. Roberts,the LJS book review editor, reported that she isvery open to suggestions for books of andabout literary journalism to review. Davidreported that the quarterly newsletter, LiteraryJournalism, continues to prosper. Bill reportedthat the web site, IALJS.ORG, continues to bevery useful and that our webmaster, NickJackson, is doing a superb job.

Graduate Committee Chair TobiasEberwein sent word that the Friday breakfastfor graduate student members was a success.Tom Connery reported that, as IALJS-10 HostCommittee Chair, he and the University of St.Thomas are looking forward to welcoming theassociation to Minneapolis next year on 7-9May 2015. Juan Dominquez reported that thePontifícia Universidade Católica do RioGrande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil is alreadyplanning to host IALJS-11 on 19-21 May 2016.

Joint programming was the nextitem on the agenda. Rob Alexander reportedthe successful IALJS panel at the AmericanComparative Literature Association meeting atNew York University in March and mentionedthere will be a call soon for an IALJS session atnext year’s ACLAconference in April 2015 inSeattle. Josh Roiland reported that there will bean all-morning IALJS session in August 2014 atthe Association for Education in Journalismand Mass Communication convention inMontreal and that AEJMC will meet in SanFrancisco in 2015. John Bak noted that there

will be an IALJS session at the biennial confer-ence of the European Society for the Study ofEnglish (ESSE) in September 2014 in Kosice,Slovakia; the 2016 ESSE meeting will be inGalway, Ireland.

There being no old business, undernew business it was reported that AliceTrindade will chair a committee which will rec-ommend ways the association can celebrate its10th anniversary next year at IALJS-10. Therewas also some discussion about the member-ship and registration fees the associationcharges students that noted the different cultur-al traditions of various countries’ academies;no motion was offered. In addition, BeateJosephi mentioned that there may be a literaryjournalism session at the InternationalAssociation for Media and CommunicationResearch in Montreal in August 2015.

There being no further new business,a call for nominations from the floor was fol-lowed by a motion by Tom Connery to elect byacclamation the slate of officers and chairs for2014-2016 proposed by the NominationsCommittee. Seconded by John Hartsock, themotion carried unanimously, electing PRESI-DENT Norman Sims; FIRST VICE PRESI-DENT Isabel Soares; SECOND VICE PRESI-DENT Tom Connery; TREASURER BillReynolds, SECRETARY David Abrahamson;RESEARCH COMMITTEE CHAIR JoshRoiland; PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRRob Alexander; PUBLICITY COMMITTEECHAIR Lindsay Morton; and LITERARYJOURNALISM STUDIES EDITOR BillReynolds. Bill then passed the ceremonialgavel to the new IALJS President Norm Sims.

Newly installed IALJS PresidentNorm Sims delivered a thoughtful acceptancespeech, offered a reminder that we hope to seeeveryone in Minneapolis in May 2015 and at5:57 p.m. called for a motion of adjournment,which was moved, seconded and unanimous-ly approved. ©

Respectfully Submitted

David Abrahamson, SecretaryInternational Association for Literary Journalism Studies

IALJS ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETINGMinutes from meeting held at IALJS-9 in Paris, France on 16 May 2014.

By David Abrahamson, Northwestern University (U.S.A.)



FINDING THE HÔTEL D’ANGLETERREAnother serendipitous moment in the history of IALJS.

By Isabel Soares, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)

It is 2007. IALJS is now more than aproject born out of a declaration ofgood intentions shared among a group

of literary journalism studies enthusiaststhe year before. Although it is the secondtime ever that a scholarly conferencedevoted to literary journalism has been

held, it is thefirst time thereis one underthe umbrella ofa definingname, “Inter-national Asso-ciation forLiteraryJournalismStudies.” Thename is a sanc-tifying, sanc-tioning proof ofexistence: IALJSexists, thereforeit is. And the

rite of passage into being happened inParis at 56 Rue Jacob, the location ofCentre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, one ofthe buildings of our host institution, theprestigious Institut d’Etudes Politiques deParis, known around the globe by itsdiminutive Scien-ces Po.

The enthusiasm of that conference

must have eclipsedthe fact that suchunpretentious build-ing was once theHôtel d’York, wherein 1783, anothergreat rite of passagewas sanctified andsanctioned: theTreaty of Paris grant-ing independence tothe United States.Back in 2007, IALJSwas so immersed inits own history mak-ing that little importance was given towhat it meant to be on Rue Jacob.

Indeed, in 1777, Benjamin Franklinresided at the Hôtel de Hambourg, a

mere two doors away from 56 and theBritish Embassy was housed at number44. Rumour has it that the inner garden at44 was where Franklin, John Adams andJohn Jay concocted the peace treatybetween Britain and its then NorthAmerican colonies.

In 1814 the British embassymoved to Rue Saint Honoré, and number44 became a hotel: the Hotel Jacob, laterHôtel Jacob et d’Angleterre, today simplyHôtel d’Angle-terre. The innergarden remained:Washington Ir-ving and Hem-ingway havingprobably sat thereduring theirsojourns at thehotel. And I can-not help but won-der about thosenineteenth-century Portuguese NewJournalists—whose love of Paris and allthings French— made them frequent visi-tors to the capital. Did they also restthere?

As it happens, Rue Jacob is at theheart of the Sixth Arrondissement, theintellectual Parisian hub with its literarycafés and charming hotels. PortugueseNew Journalists of the 19th century wereas familiar with Paris as they were withLisbon. Francophiles to their marrow,they deified Zola, Flaubert and Hugo.

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We were onthe historic Paris street

where in 1783Great Britain granted America

its independence



They enjoyed theboulevards andstayed at the besthotels.Paradoxically,however, theydevoted part oftheir NewJournalism to writ-ing about Englandand London as theepitome of duplici-ty: the world’sfinancial capital,the metropolis ofthe greatest, largestempire ever and simultaneously the abyssof the East End so crudely described byJack London, Henry Mayhew or W. T.Stead. They wrote of an imperial Britainwhose conquering means includedspreading hotels with names such asd’Angleterre or Britannic all over theworld.

In 2007, I came to 56 Rue Jacob totalk about them and their hideousLondon. The presentation was polishedinto a chapter in Literary Journalism Acrossthe Globe edited by IALJS’s John Bak andBill Reynolds. And life moved on.

* * *It is 2014. IALJS has come of age and

returns home to Paris: the wondrous real-ization that IALJS is so much more than

what we could have predicted. There isan informal rendezvous at a bistro at 35

Rue Jacob, a celebratory finale of anotherconference among friends whose pathshave crossed because of literary journal-ism. Just opposite number 35, there it is:the Hôtel d’Angleterre. I am suddenlyreminded why I am an enthusiast of liter-ary journalism. My mind goes back to atime when Eça de Queirós and his fellowPortuguese New Journalists—the oneswho made me cross the threshold leadingto literary journalism—were there. I dinewith my dear IALJS colleagues, all thewhile warmed by memories of NewJournalism and the things that an innergarden opposite the street may have wit-nessed. Home is there, too. ©

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I amwarmed by memories of

the historic hoteland the things its inner garden may

have witnessed



With a program the size of thepaperback edition of In ColdBlood listing more than 300 sem-

inars and a double-columned index ofpanelists 35-pages long, this year’sAmerican Comparative LiteratureAssociation’s conference, held March 20

to 23 at New YorkUniversity, was amonster. Andonce again, for thefifth time in sixyears, the IALJSwas there.

In keepingwith the confer-ence theme of“Capitals,” theIALJS-sponsoredsession, entitled“Global LiteraryJournalism and itsCapitals,” asked

participants to consider the diverse waysin which capital (and capitals) haveinformed the production, circulation,

reception, and study of literary journalismpast, present, and future.

A slate of ten panelists from fivecountries responded to the call with astunning collection of papers, introducingthose in attendance to an exciting array ofauthors, themes, and approaches to liter-ary journalism studies.

Topics covered in the three-dayseminar included a rigorous analysis ofthe work of contemporaries AlbertLondres and Jack London, a comparisonof the representation of the poor in theethnographic realism of American anthro-

IALJSOUTREACH

IALJS/ACLA AT NEW YORK UNIVERSITYA successful joint session at the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting.

By Joshua Roiland, Notre Dame University (U.S.A.)

pologist Oscar Lewis and the subversivetestimonio of the Cuban literary journalistMiguel Barnet, and a look at the renewedpopularity of crônicas in Latin America inthe past decade, and particularly the waythis genre today addresses questions ofthe “local” in the context of global classstruggle. Still on the topic of the local—and wonderfully fitting for a conferenceroom overlooking NYU’s emblematicWashington Square—another paperoffered a Village-centered archaeology ofthe term “hipster” through its variousbohemian, beat, punk and contemporaryincarnations in literary journalism andother genres.

Participants were also treated toa reevaluation of a significant but neglect-ed work of the literary journalism of theVietnam War, John Sack’s 1965 Esquirearticle “M,” and a consideration of theplace of the Cold War African photojour-nalism of Ryszard Kapuscinski in relationto his career and reputation, as well asdiscussions of the construction ofBrazilian national identity in the crônicas

of João do Rio (1881-1921), and speculationon the rhetorically dis-ruptive effects ofhypothetical represen-tations in the other-wise strictly factualrepresentations in lit-erary journalism.

Through avideo link to Poland,participants wereintroduced to Polishwriter MariuszSzczygiel’s “intertex-tual journalism,” thatis, journalistic writingthat shifts its focusfrom the empiricalworld to its textual

NYU’S ICONIC WASHINGTON SQUAREARCH IS THE SITEOF ACTIVITIES OF EVERY POSSIBLE SORT.


One paperwas wonderfully fitting for

a conference inGreenwich Village: a study of

the term “hipster”



and cultural representations. This blur-ring of the line between the journalisticreal and its others was the subject of athoughtful presentation on the work ofSpanish author and journalist Juan JoséMillás whose articuentos have appeared inSpain’s largest circulation daily newspa-per El País for the last two decades, offer-ing a bracing counter-narrative to the

daily news.This year’s meeting of the ACLA

was its biggest ever. But despite its size,the conference’s unique seminar system,in which panelists meet in daily two-hoursessions, prompted a productive discus-sion of various themes – probably themost prevalent of which was the potentialof literary journalism as an activist genre– and encouraged a warm sense of schol-arly mission and collegiality.

Panelists included William Dow(American University of Paris), HollySchreiber (Indiana University), MariaPichon Rivière (New York University),Josh Roiland (University of Notre Dame),Bill Reynolds (Ryerson University), SheilaSkaff (Columbia University), VeraHarabagi Hanna (UniversidadePresbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo),Jovana Zujevic (Georgetown University),

THE ANNAUL IALJS/ACLA GATHERINGSARE BECOMING A STANDINGTRADITION, AS IS THE DE RIGEUR GROUPPHOTO. THIS YEAR, HOWEVER,THE PICTURE WAS ABLE TO INCLUDEAN ILAJS MEMBER PRESENTVIA A VIDEO LINK FROM KRAKOW,POLAND. BELOW, FROM LEFT TO RIGHT, ROB ALEXANDER, SHEILASKAFF, HOLLY SCHREIBER, VERA HANNA, JOVANA ZUJEVIC, MARIAPICHON RIVIÈRE AND BILLREYNOLDS. ON SCREEN: MATEUSZ ZIM-NOCH. MISSING FROM THE PHOTO ARE WILLIAM DOW AND JOSH ROILAND.

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Rob Alexander (Brock University), and,by way of a video link from Kraków,Mateusz Zimnoch (JagiellonianUniversity).

The University of Washingtonwill host the 2015 ACLA meeting at theSheraton Seattle, March 26-29, 2015. ©



LITERARY JOURNALISM IN SWEDENThere are some promising signs that there are better times ahead.

By Kristina Lundgren, Södertörn University (Sweden)

Though the term narrative journalismis more common than literary jour-nalism in Sweden, we have a long

tradition of fiction authors working asjournalists.

Perhaps the most well knownare the early August Strindberg and later

the group of prole-tarian writers inthe interwar peri-od. They support-ed their fictionwriting with arti-cles based on theirown experiencesin that golden ageof Swedish presswhen Stockholm’sten daily newspa-pers had hugeSunday supple-ments. They werefilled with a great

deal of original reporting, and much of itis still worth reading.

After the Second World War,radio and television broadcasting becamethe dominant journalistic forms. More-over, public service—with the demandsfor objectivity and impartiality—createdthe ideal of an impersonalized voice. Withclosure of many newspapers duringthe1950s, some of the best reportageappeared in the union press. Despite thepressures for increased professionaliza-tion, many journalists of the 1960s gener-ation tried to combine investigative meth-ods with long-form literary techniques,and for some decades a number of maga-zines flourished.

And then came the Internet andthe crisis for the printed press—or moreprecisely, for newspapers. At the sametime that newspapers are being closed inSweden, new magazines are born almostevery day, many focused on lifestyle andleisure topics.

At a seminar on literary journal-ism in Gothenburg in 2013, one of thejournalists claimed that it was all thislifestyle journalism that as long ago as2005 destroyed the free-lance market for

good writing. She claimed that since thenit has been harder and harder to get paidfor a long text built on decent research.And, of course. she is at least partly right.Faced with multimedia technologies andcompetition from continuously updatedweb sites, the space for an in-depth narra-tive journalism has shrunk to almostnothing.

But there are some good signs.Before sitting down to write this text, Ispent my breakfast with the Sunday’snewspapers; they were filled with theordinary news and, of course, the specialweekend stuff. But there were also severallonger, well reported articles. Indeed,ambitious, in-depth journalism is fre-

quently mentioned as one solution to thenewspaper crisis. For example, over thelast years there has been a great interestin documentaries. This hasbeen reflected in the grow-ing number of documen-tary programs in theSwedish radio and televi-sion broadcasting, as wellas in the cinema. It is verylikely that this has had aninfluence on the thinkingof many editors ofSwedish newspapers.

Since last autumnwe have seen some notice-able efforts to turn the tidein the printed press, oftenin collaboration with newtechniques. One growingexample is the use of info-graphic illustrations forpresentating huge masses

of data-basedfacts,whilethe useof spacefor textfocuseson the use of narrative explanations ofmore complicated and human contexts.Another example is asking readers toreport mistakes by companies and gov-ernment authorities. Both these tech-niques are uncovering new and untoldstories which have been material for moreambitious multipart articles. Some ofthese—such as Maciej Zaremba’s five-partarticle on a health care system—have alsobeen sold as books. And with the newboom of pocket books, print-on-demandbooks and e-books, many journalists arewriting their own books of literary jour-nalism.

What about the traditional pub-lishing form of reportage in classical mag-azines? There are not many left today.And those that are, are all monthly nowinstead of weekly. But I am happy to beable to report that very recently aSwedish edition of Granta has started incollaboration with the U.K. and ten othercountries. That is really promising! ©

AROUND THEWORLD

One gooddevelopment is that multipart

articles ofliterary journalism often later

appear as books



http://www.news-gazette.com/store/news-gazette-products/books/slices-life.html


The constant happiness is curiosity.” —Alice Munro

The quotation I’ve taped to the classroom dooris from the Canadian writer who appeared on last fall’scurrent events quiz. Please note the spelling of Munro and that curiosity is a hard word to get right, too,but thank God for spell check, which too many of you

fail to use, but I digress, as I usually do.About the Dow Jones Industrial Average: I’m looking for five numbers, 15,000-something, maybe headed to 16,000 if the market goes up again,and put a comma, not a period after the 15 or the 16,not a period, okay? One day when you’ve got a retirement account you’ll be looking at these numbers,possibly in a state of anxiety, wondering how longyou can work, and if you’re in a trade like minethat requires no heavy lifting, you will say,“What the hell, I’ll keep working until they carry me out.”

The point is that even though you’ve never read Alice Munro,at least you’ve heard of her and the terrible state of affairs in Syria which seems less real than reality television, which is not real, so maybe we should we talk about real because you all want to create a part of the reality we’re making up.When I was your age (sorry about that phrase but sometimes I have to use it), someone was talking about Rudy Vallee (note that spelling) and now the Beatles, the Beatlescount more in the public memory than the stupid war we fought in the ‘60s(note the apostrophe that replaces the 19 but no apostrophebefore the s), but I digress. You may never read a line of Alice Munro, who is a bit dull and describes a middle classCanadian world remote from our inner-city concerns,but still she won the Nobel Prize and I believethat everything is connected, the butterfly’s wings—you know that metaphor?—think of her stories as being like that tiny vibration that shifts the currentsof everyone’s mind just a little, like Rudy Vallee with his megaphonegoing into his 80s, outliving the Beatles. Have you readwhat Keith Richards said about writing songs all the time under the pressure of touring, just like writing storieson deadline? Surely you can turn around 500 wordsin four hours of class time! And by the wayaren’t you concerned about why food stampsare part of the farm bill, and how the cuts will affectthe people living across the street in the Cuney Homes and why the liberal Democrat running for governor favorsOpen Carry? Hell, even Wyatt Earp (whose show you haven’t seen) disarmed the cowboys when they rode into townso they wouldn’t be shooting people for making bad movesin traffic or texting in the movie theater. How much moneydo you figure was lost when the Seahawks murdered the point spreadin the Super Bowl? Why does the prosecutor who falsely accusedAnthony Graves of murder continue to deny he made up a story?Because he had the power to do it, because all you need is a good story to persuade a jury to put a man in prison. Most of the time the cops don’t do complex investigations like on CSI.They wait for the murderer to walk into the station and stick outhis hands and say, “Cuff me, I did it.” What I’m trying to tell youis that facts matter, spelling matters, punctuation matters, use a commanot a period with attribution, the apostrophe when you write“She made all A’s,” but not 90s, and don’t capitalize so liberally.Keep asking yourself: What’s the story about? What’s the story about? What’s the story about? ©



PERSONALREFLECTION

CALL FOR PAPERS FORBLACK PERIODICALS SPECIAL ISSUEThe Fall 2015 issue of AmericanPeriodicals will be devoted to texts explor-ing the field of Black periodical studiesand/or exploring issues in/of Black periodi-cals across the centuries, from Freedom’sJournal to Vibe and beyond. The editors,Eric Gardner and Joycelyn Moody, areseeking scholarship that considers thenexus of African Americanist inquiry andperiodical studies—including, but not limit-ed to, approaches that engage book historystudies or center on print culture. In addi-tion to the content and/or “look and feel” oftexts, the editors are interested in manu-scripts that explore topics tied to editorialpractice and policy, authorship, financing,production, design, illustration, circulation,readership, reception, cultural position, col-lection/preservation and a rich range ofother subjects tied to Black periodicals.Strong interdisciplinary work will be wel-comed. For further information, pleasecontact Eric Garrdner at <[email protected]>. Manuscript submissions should bemade by 30 August 2014.

STYLE AND LANGUAGECONFERENCE MEETINGIN TURKEY IN OCTOBERThe 14th International Language, Literatureand Stylistics Symposium will be held inIzmir, Turkey on 15-17 October 2014.Organized by Dokuz Eylul University’s BucaFaculty of Education, the ForeignLanguages Department and the EnglishLanguage Teaching Department, the sym-posium is an opportunity for all scholars instylistics, linguistics, applied linguistics,translation studies and literature to cometogether. The primary purpose of this sym-posium is to probe and grapple with thestylistic features in literature and language.Fields of study in the conference includecultural studies, linguistics, applied linguis-tics, literature, philosophy, and translationstudies. The papers presented in English atthe conference will be published in aninternational Procedia - Social andBehavioral Sciences. The conference lan-guages will be English and Turkish. Formore information, please contact FeryalCubukcu at [email protected].

A SIGN ON AN OFFICE DOORThe journalism professor tries to explain it all.

By Michael Berryhill, Texas Southern University (U.S.A.)



LITERARY JOURNALISM COMPETITION

We are delighted to announce our first LITERARY JOURNALISM COMPETITION. Write an article (reportage, sketch, exposé, informative factualaccount, digest, etc.), short story, installment of serial fiction, or poem(s), suitablefor publication in a weekly number of Household Words or All the Year Round. Ifyou are not sure what to write, visit <www.djo.org.uk> for inspiration. Minimumword-length is 1,500 words (poems, 60 lines); maximum word-length is 2,000words.

Send your entry to <[email protected]> as an e-mail attachment, by midnighton Saturday, 6 September 2014, and, at the same time, make a £5 donation via thewebsite homepage to cover entry costs. When both have been received, your entrywill be passed to the judges. Short-listed entrants will be informed by the end ofSeptember; winners will be announced in mid-to-late October. The FIRST PRIZE(of which there is one) will be £150; RUNNER-UP PRIZES (of which there willbe several) will consist of a year’s subscription to The Dickensian or copies of theDickens Journals Online 2012 conference proceedings, Charles Dickens and theMid-Victorian Press (RRP £25). Winning entries will be typeset in an ExtraTwenty-First-Century Number, available from the website.

Commencing in 1850, Charles Dickens’s weekly magazines set a new standard inpopular, imaginative, topical journalism, whether satirical or sentimental.Launched in 2012, Dickens Journals Online is the Open Access website dedicatedto representing them in a readable, scholarly format, and analyzing their contents.





CALL FOR PAPERSInternational Association for Literary Journalism Studies

“Literary Journalism: Media, Meaning, Memory”The Tenth International Conference for Literary Journalism Studies (IALJS-10)

The University of St. ThomasDepartment of Journalism of Communication and Journalism

St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.

7-9 May 2015

The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies invites submissions of originalresearch papers, abstracts for research in progress and proposals for panels on Literary Journalism for the IALJS annual convention on 7-9 May 2015. The conference will be held atthe University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.

The conference hopes to be a forum for scholarly work of both breadth and depth in the field ofliterary journalism, and all research methodologies are welcome, as are research on all aspects ofliterary journalism and/or literary reportage. For the purpose of scholarly delineation, our definition of literary journalism is "journalism as literature" rather than "journalism aboutliterature." The association especially hopes to receive papers related to the general conferencetheme, “Literary Journalism: Media, Meaning, Memory." All submissions must be in English.

The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies is a multi-disciplinary learned society whose essential purpose is the encouragement and improvement of scholarly research and education in Literary Journalism. As an association in a relatively recently defined field ofacademic study, it is our agreed intent to be both explicitly inclusive and warmly supportive of avariety of scholarly approaches.

Details of the programs of previous annual meetings can be found at:http://www.ialjs.org/?page_id=33




I. GUIDELINES FOR RESEARCH PAPERS

Submitted research papers should not exceed 7,500 words, or about 25 double-spaced pages, plusendnotes. Please regard this as an upper limit; shorter papers are certainly welcome. Endnotesand bibliographic citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style. Papers may not besimultaneously submitted to any other conferences. Papers previously published, presented, accepted or under review are ineligible. Only one paper per author will be accepted for presentation in the conference’s research sessions, and at least one author for each paper must beat the convention in order to present the paper. If accepted, each paper presenter at a conferenceResearch Session may be allotted no more than 15 minutes. To be considered, please observe thefollowing guidelines:

(a) Submission by e-mail attachment in MS Word is required. No other format or faxesor postal mail submissions will be accepted.

(b) Include one separate title page containing title, author/s, affiliation/s, and the address, phone, fax, and e-mail of the lead author.

(c) Also include a second title page containing only the paper’s title and the paper’s abstract. The abstract should be approximately 250 words in length.

(d) Your name and affiliation should not appear anywhere in the paper [this information willonly appear on the first title page; see (b) above].

II. GUIDELINES FOR WORK-IN-PROGRESS PRESENTATIONS (ABSTRACTS)

Submitted abstracts for Work-in-Progress Sessions should not exceed 250 words. If accepted, each presenter at a conference Work-in-Progress session may be allotted no more than 10 minutes. To be considered, please observe the following guidelines:

(a) Submission by e-mail attachment using MS Word is required. No other format or faxes or postal mail submissions will be accepted.

(b) Include one separate title page containing title, author/s, affiliation/s, and the address, phone, fax and e-mail of the lead author.

(c) Also include a second page containing only the work’s title and the actual abstract of thework-in-progress. The abstract should be approximately 250 words in length.

III. GUIDELINES FOR PROPOSALS FOR PANELS

(a) Submission by e-mail attachment in MS Word is required. No other format or faxesor postal mail submissions will be accepted.

(b) Panel proposals should contain the panel title, possible participants and their affiliation and e-mail addresses, and a description of the panel’s subject. The description should beapproximately 250 words in length.

(c) Panels are encouraged on any topic related to the study, teaching or practice of literary journalism. See http://www.ialjs.org/?page_id=21.


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IV. EVALUATION CRITERIA, DEADLINES AND CONTACT INFORMATION

All research paper submissions will be evaluated on originality and importance of topic;literature review; clarity of research purpose; focus; use of original and primary sources and howthey support the paper’s purpose and conclusions; writing quality and organization; and thedegree to which the paper contributes to the study of literary journalism. Similarly, abstracts ofworks-in-progress and panel proposals will be evaluated on the degree to which they contributeto the study of literary journalism. All submissions will be blind-juried, and submissions fromstudents as well as faculty are encouraged.

Please submit research papers or abstracts of works-in-progress presentations to:

Prof. Josh Roiland, University of Maine, Orono (U.S.A.)2015 IALJS-10 Research Chair; e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>

Please submit proposals for panels to:

Prof. Rob Alexander, Brock University (Canada)2015 IALJS-10 Program Co-Chair; e-mail: <[email protected]>

Deadline for all submissions: No later than 1 December 2014

For more information regarding the conference or the association, please go to http://www.ialjs.org or contact:

Prof,. Norman Sims, University of Massachusetts – Amherst (U.S.A.)IALJS President; e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>

Prof. Isabel Soares, Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)IALJS First Vice President; e-mail: <[email protected]>

Prof. Bill Reynolds, Ryerson University (Canada)IALJS Treasurer; e-mail: <[email protected]>

Prof. David Abrahamson, Northwestern University (U.S.A.)IALJS Secretary; e-mail: <[email protected]>

Prof. John S. Bak, Nancy-Université (France)Founding IALJS President; e-mail: [email protected]>




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IALJS OFFICERS AND CHAIRS, 2014-2016PPRREESS IIDDEENNTTNorman S imsUnivers i t y o f Massachuset ts , Amhers tCommonwea l th Honors Co l legeAmhers t , MA 01003U.S.A.h/[email protected]

FFIIRRSSTT VVIICCEE PPRREESS IIDDEENNTTIsabe l SoaresTUn ivers idade de L isboaIns t i tu to Super io r de C iênc ias Soc ia is e Po l í t i casPó lo Un ivers i tá r io do A l to da A juda, Rua A lmer indo Lessa1300-663 L isboaPORTUGALw/[email protected] l i sboa.p t

SSEECCOONNDD VVIICCEE PPRREESS IIDDEENNTTThomas B. Conner yUn ivers i t y o f S t . Thomas Depar tment o f Communica t ion and Journa l i sm2115 Summit Ave.St . Pau l , MN 55105U.S.A.w/+1-651-962-5265, h/+1-651-647-0048, fax/+1-651-962-6360tbconner y@st thomas.edu

TTRREEAASSUURREERRBi l l Reyno ldsRyerson Un ivers i t ySchoo l o f Journa l i sm, 350 V ic to r ia S t .Toronto , Ontar io M5B 2K3CANADAw/+1-416-979-5000 x6294, h/+1-416-535-0892reyno [email protected]

SSEECCRREETTAARRYYDav id AbrahamsonNor thwestern Un ivers i t yMed i l l Schoo l o f Journa l i sm, 1845 Sher idan Rd.Evanston, IL 60208U.S.A.w/+1-847-467-4159, h/+1-847-332-2223, fax/+1-847-332-1088d-abrahamson@nor thwestern .edu

CCHHAAIIRR,, RREESSEEAARRCCHH CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEEJoshua Ro i landUn ivers i t y o f Ma ineDepar tment . o f Communica t ion and Journa l i sm + Honors Co l lege416 Dunn Ha l lOrono, ME 04469U.S.A.h/+1-314-550-9156joshua. ro i [email protected]

CCHHAAIIRR,, PPRROOGGRRAAMM CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEERob A lexanderBrock Un ivers i t yDepar tment o f Eng l i sh Languages and L i te ra tureSt . Ca thar ines , Ontar io L2S 3A1CANADAw/+905-688-5550 x3886ra [email protected]

CCHHAAIIRR,, PPUUBBLL IICC IITTYY CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEEL indsay Mor tonAvonda le Co l legeDepar tment o f Humani t ies & Crea t i ve Ar tsCooranbong, New South Wales 2265AUSTRALIAFax/+61- (02)-4980-2118l indsay.mor ton@avonda le .edu.au

CCHHAAIIRR,, EESSSSEE OORRGGAANNIIZZIINNGG CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEEJohn BakUn ivers i té de Lor ra ineCent re de Té lé-ense ignement Un ivers i ta i re (CTU)42-44, avenue de la L ibera t ion , B.P. 3397

54015 Nancy FRANCEw/+33- (0 )383-968-448, h/+33- (0 )383-261-476, fax/+33- (0 )383-968-449john.bak@univ-nancy2. f r

CCHHAAIIRR,, AAEEJJMMCC OORRGGAANNIIZZIINNGG CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEEJoshua Ro i landUn ivers i t y o f Ma ineDepar tment . o f Communica t ion and Journa l i sm + Honors Co l lege416 Dunn Ha l lOrono, ME 04469U.S.A.h/+1-314-550-9156joshua. ro i [email protected]

CCHHAAIIRR,, AACCLLAA OORRGGAANNIIZZ IINNGG CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEERob A lexanderBrock Un ivers i t yDepar tment o f Eng l i sh Languages and L i te ra tureSt . Ca thar ines , Ontar io L2S 3A1CANADAw/+905-688-5550 x3886ra [email protected]

CCOO--CCHHAAIIRRSS,, CCOONNFFEERREENNCCEE PPLLAANNNNIINNGG CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEEHi lde van Be l leKatho l ieke Un ivers i te i t LeuvenCampus AntwerpenS in t-Andr iess t raa t 2 / 2000 AntwerpBELGIUMw/+32-3-206-0491hi lde .vanbe l le@less ius .eu

Dav id AbrahamsonNor thwestern Un ivers i t yMed i l l Schoo l o f Journa l i sm, 1845 Sher idan Rd.Evanston, IL 60208U.S.A.w/+1-847-467-4159, h/+1-847-332-2223, fax/+1-847-332-1088d-abrahamson@nor thwestern .edu

CCHHAAIIRR,, GGRRAADDUUAATTEE SSTTUUDDEENNTT CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEETob ias Eberwe inTechn ische Un ivers i tä t DresdenIns t i tu t fü r Kommunika t ionswissenschaf tZe l lescher Weg 17D-01069 DresdenGERMANYw/+49-351-463-35484, fax/+49-351-463-37067tob ias .eberwe [email protected]

MMEEMMBBEERRSS,, NNOOMMIINNAATTIINNGG CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEE ( inc ludes F IRST V ICE PRESIDENT)Thomas B. ConneryUn ivers i t y o f S t . Thomas Depar tment o f Communica t ion and Journa l i sm2115 Summit Ave.St . Pau l , MN 55105U.S.A.w/+1-651-962-5265, h/+1-651-647-0048, fax/+1-651-962-6360tbconner y@st thomas.edu

Isabe l le Meure tUn ivers i té L ib re de Bruxe l lesCampus du So lbosch, ULB CP123, avenue F.D. Rooseve l t 501050 Bruxe l lesBELGIUMw/+32- (0 )2-650-4061, fax/+32- (0 )2-650-2450imeure t@ulb .ac .be

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MMEEMMBBEERRSS,, AAWWAARRDDSS CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEEIsabe l Soares (cha i r )Un ivers idade de L isboa




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I ns t i tu to Super io r de C iênc ias Soc ia is e Po l í t i casPó lo Un ivers i tá r io do A l to da A juda, Rua A lmer indo Lessa1300-663 L isboaPORTUGALw/[email protected] l i sboa.p t

H i lde van Be l leKa tho l ieke Un ivers i te i t LeuvenCampus AntwerpenS in t-Andr iess t raa t 2 / 2000 AntwerpBELGIUMw/+32-3-206-0491hi lde .vanbe l le@less ius .eu

Mar ia Lass i la-Mer isa loLass i lan t ie 5313430 Hameen l innaF INLANDce l l /+358-50-525-5819mar ia . lass i la-mer isa lo@ik i . f i

CCHHAAIIRR,, PPUUBBLLIICCAATT IIOONN CCOOMMMMIITTTTEEEEAl ice Donat Tr indadeUn ivers idade de L isboaIns t i tu to Super io r de C iênc ias Soc ia is e Po l í t i casPó lo Un ivers i tá r io do A l to da A juda, Rua A lmer indo Lessa1300-663 L isboaPORTUGALw/+351-213-619-430, fax/+351-213-619-442at r [email protected] l i sboa.p t

EEDDIITTOORR,, LLIITTEERRAARRYY JJOOUURRNNAALLIISSMM SSTTUUDDIIEESS Bi l l Reyno ldsRyerson Un ivers i t ySchoo l o f Journa l i sm, 350 V ic to r ia S t .Toronto , Ontar io M5B 2K3CANADAw/+1-416-979-5000 x6294, h/+1-416-535-0892reyno [email protected]

AASSSSOOCCIIAATTEE EEDDIITTOORRSS,, LLIITTEERRAARRYY JJOOUURRNNAALLIISSMM SSTTUUDDIIEESS Lynn Cunn inghamRyerson Un ivers i t ySchoo l o f Journa l i sm, 350 V ic to r ia S t .Toronto , Ontar io M5B 2K3CANADAw/+1-416-979-5000 x6294, h/+1-416-203-0803lcunn [email protected]

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Mi les Magu i reUn ivers i t y o f Wiscons in - OshkoshDepar tment o f Journa l i smOshkosh, WI 54901U.S.A.w/+1-920-424-7148 magu i [email protected]

Rober ta Magu i reUn ivers i t y o f Wiscons in - OshkoshUn ivers i t y Honors Program / Depar tment o f Eng l i shOshkosh, WI 54901U.S.A.w/+1-920-424-7364magui [email protected]

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For a few semesters at MackenzieUniversity, I've been teaching acourse called “Journalism, City

and Quotidian Life.” I decided that ourfocus was going to be the São Paulodowntown, which is located only about300 meters from the campus’s main

entrance. Despite thephysical closeness,most of my stu-dents— includingthose who were bornin São Paulo—ignored or evenfeared the centralarea of the city. Someof them had neverbeen there.

This fact, howev-er, is somewhat com-prehensible. Since the

begining of the 1970s, when São Paulo’sdowntown started decaying, the greatcinemas, the sophisticated night clubs,the big hotels and the newspaper officesall moved to other areas. The new gen-erations consider the relatively recentlybuilt Paulista Avenue—where São Pauloimitates New York with refulgent sky-scrapers—as its downtown.

But many kilometers fromPaulista Avenue, in the long valley withold viaducts that connect two differentepochs—the nineteenth and twentiethcenturies—ancient voices still ask thecity to look at itself. There we see theSão Paulo of the sugar cane juice, of the

LITERARY JOURNALISMTHE NEWSLETTER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR LITERARY JOURNALISM STUDIESSUMMER 2014 VOL. 8 NO. 3

“Greek barbecue” spinning roundunder the smoke from the traffic, of thelabyrinth of commercial galleries, of theimmigrants from Bolivia, Korea andAfrica that compete for the urban spacewith Arab and Armenian merchants.This mixture of lives and stories criesout for good narrators.

The first time that I took agroup of students to walk in São Paulodowntown, we were a bit unfortunate.A few blocks from the campus, wefound a lot of people looking at acorpse stretched out on the sidewalk. Itwas a real shock for the students. Formany of them, I think it could havebeen the first direct contact with death,which they only knew from the televi-sion screen. Well, didn't they want to bejournalists? And should not a journalistbe where things happen?

Much more dangerous thanfinding a dead man on the sidewalk isliving in a city without a center, whichproduces people without references,without memories. So why does SãoPaulo want to forget itself?

That's what I ask sometimeswhen we walk through the downtown.The large cracks we see in the tradition-al mosaics—made by little Portuguese-style black and white stones that repro-duce the shape of the state of São Paulomap—are filled by rough patches ofcement. We see rubbish has accumulat-ed within the pedestals of the lightposts decorated with the republican

A CLASS TAKES A WALK IN A CHANGING CITYThe decline of downtown São Paulo holds lessons for journalism students.

By Renato Modernell, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie (Brazil)

emblem and iron flowers. These postswere installed on the central streets inthe 1920s, when São Paulo, having sur-vived the great coffee crisis, started toblossom with a cosmopolitan perspec-tive and a lively metropolitan lifestyle.Those light posts were a source of pridefor two or three generations.

But after the 1960s São Paulo’sdowntown became a Forbidden City, aplace most people went out of theirway to avoid as much as possible. Infact, as we get closer to the Anhagabaúvalley, crossed by those beautifulviaducts, we begin to smell a terriblesmell, so intense it seems to have beenthere since the beginning of the world.Then we see a great number of peoplestretched out on the ground, almostinvisible under their dirty blankets. Weask: Has there ever in history been somany poor people in so rich a land?How is it possible?

This question disturbs all of us;it is like a poisonous snake that weavesits way through our collective subcon-scious. I understand that my young stu-dents, like their parents, don't want togo downtown. It is there that we reachthe center of the question.

In the core of the city, underthe pale light of the old posts with theemblem of our republic, could beanswers for questions that we stillhaven't the courage to make ourselvesask. And dirty people that could havesomething new to tell us. ©

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