In Different Dispatches, David T. Humphries brings together a diverse group of well-known American writers of the interwar period, including Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway, Zora Neale Hurston, James Agee, and Robert Penn Warren. For each of these writers, journalism was more than just a training ground or way to include the news of the day. Raising questions about individual perception, social representation, and the values of the marketplace, journalism offered a means for challenging the very bounds of cultural and political representation. Before mass media and...