Learn how to be the best journalist you can be with what "could be the world's most readable textbook" (Time Out New York).

The Art of Fact is a historical treasury tracing literary journalism back to such pioneers as Defoe, Dickens, and Orwell, and to crime writers, investigative social reporters, and war correspondents who stretched the limits of style and even propriety to communicate powerful truth. Here an extraordinary range of styles--the elegance of Gay Talese, the militance of Marvel Cooke, the station-house cynicism of David Simon, the manic intelligence of Richard...

Presents the story of Bill Conlin, anchored one of America's best sports sections. This book reveals Conlin's playfulness with language and ideas led to creative nicknames - like The Jowly Grim Giant for Georgetown basketball coach John Thompson - and to entire stories based on outrageous premises.