In short, opinion, reportage, analysis and wit still find a market.
"Spain has had many important literary magazines, but not one that mixed short fiction, reportage and other forms of nonfiction and new journalism in an original way," Aurelio Major, co-editor of Granta en Español, explained.
Now, at last, comes some excellent news: the appearance of "Escape Velocity: A Charles Portis Miscellany," a collection of short fiction, reportage, memoir and more from the author of the novels "True Grit," "Norwood" and, my favorite, "The Dog of the South".
As well as being a collection of the dozen or so pieces - essays, short stories, reportage - Amis has written in response to the events of 11 September and to the War on Terror, it is an argument for why a novelist's voice should be privileged on these subjects.
The various works are a mix of memoir, poems, short stories, and reportage, from the likes of Fatima Bhutto, a scion of the Bhutto dynasty, to the eminent Urdu writer, Intizar Hussain.
THIS short piece of reportage was ghostwritten in 1955 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez for a young Colombian sailor named Luis Alejandro Velasco, who was swept off his destroyer into rough seas on a voyage from Mobile, Ala., to Cartagena, Colombia.
Greene also issued, as if he kept a Mini-Me in his attaché case, a relentless stream of other material: essays, newspaper reportage, short stories, film and book reviews.
She went on to a career in journalism, and has written short stories and reportage, in which she's covered the Chernobyl catastrophe, the Soviet war in Afghanistan and many other events – all based on thousands of interviews with witnesses.
An overwhelming majority of news media have fallen short of earnest reportage by sticking with transgender story headlines that read like: sex, hate crime, job discrimination, sex, death, jail, sex, suicide, porn, child abuse, sex, sex.
This, one of his shorter works of reportage, will be easily accessed by contemporary young readers who struggle with vocabulary and context; it will introduce them to a world they know little of, and unite the poverty and desperation of the interwar period with our own highly divided society.
