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Select a Category Books    General    Profiles    Noteworthy Nonfiction Periodicals    Magazine/Website - General Interest    Magazine/Website - Specialty    Magazine/Website - Literary Scene    Newspaper Reference    Craft    Directories    Organizations    Journalism    Travel General Resources    Link List    Reference    Words/Usage

Books

General

Life Stories The Best American Magazine Writing The Best Newspaper Writing The New Gilded Age Lahr, John. Show and Tell

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Profiles

Baum, Dan. Nine Lives Coyne, Kevin. Marching Home Dawidoff, Nicholas. In the Country of Country McPhee, John. A Sense of Where You Are

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Noteworthy Nonfiction

Agee, James. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Angell, Roger. Five Seasons Berendt, John. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Bernstein, Carl and Woodward, Bob. All the President’s Men Bissinger, H.G.. Friday Night Lights Bowden, Mark. Black Hawk Down Bryson, Bill. A Short History of Nearly Everything Burrough, Bryan and Helyar, John. Barbarians at the Gate Capote, Truman. In Cold Blood Churchill, Winston. The Gathering Storm Conover, Ted. Newjack Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel Didion, Joan. Salvador Dillard, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek Estes, Clarissa Pinkola. Women Who Run With Wolves Fisher, M.F.K.. The Art of Eating Friedman, Thomas. From Beirut to Jerusalem Gladwell, Malcolm. The Tipping Point Gould, Stephen Jay. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory Gourevitch, Philip. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With our Families Greil, Marcus. Like a Rolling Stone Halberstam, David. Best and the Brightest Harr, Jonathan. A Civil Action Hersey, John. Hiroshima Hillenbrand, Laura. Seabiscuit Junger, Sebastian. The Perfect Storm Kahn, Roger. The Boys of Summer Kidder, Tracy. Among Schoolchildren Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air Leblanc, Adrian Nicole. Random Family Levitt, Steven D. and Dubner, Stephen J.. Freakonomics Lewis, Michael. Liar's Poker Lopez, Barry. Arctic Dreams Lukas, Anthony. Common Ground Mailer, Norman. The Executioner’s Song Malcolm, Janet. The Journalist and the Murderer Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. The Story of a Shipwrecked Sailor McCullough, David. Great Bridge McPhee, John. Oranges McPhee, John. The John McPhee Reader Mitchell, Joseph. Up in the Old Hotel Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt Orlean, Susan. The Orchid Thief Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma Prejean, Helen. Dead Man Walking Remnick, David. Lenin's Tomb Roach, Mary. Stiff Ross, Alex. The Rest is Noise Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Schama, Simon. Citizens Schlosser, Eric. Fast Food Nation Talese, Gay. Honor Thy Father Terkel, Studs. Working Thompson, Hunter S.. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Thompson, Hunter S.. Hell’s Angels Tuchman, Barbara. The Guns of August Winchester, Simon. The Professor and the Madman Wolfe, Tom. Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers Wolfe, Tom. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower

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Periodicals

Magazine/Website - General Interest

Atlantic Monthly Daily Beast Harpers National Review New Republic New Yorker Salon Slate The Nation Time Y Yahoo Magazine List

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Magazine/Website - Specialty

Afar Architectural Digest Black Book Conde Nast Traveler Cosmopolitan Economist Entertainment Weekly Esquire Fortune Glamour Good Housekeeping Gourmet GQ Marie Claire Maxim Men's Health Men's Journal More Mother Jones National Geographic National Geographic Traveler New York Outside Parents People Playboy Reader's Digest Real Simple Rolling Stone Runner's World Smithsonian Sports Illustrated Teen Vogue Texas Monthly Travel + Leisure Vanity Fair Vogue

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Magazine/Website - Literary Scene

Mr. Magazine The Writer

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Newspaper

Los Angeles Times New York Times Pro Publica The Daily Telegraph The Guardian The Independent The Times USA Today Wall Street Journal Washington Post Y Yahoo Newspaper List

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Reference

Craft

ASJA Guide to Freelance Writing Telling True Stories Blundell, William. The Art and Craft of Feature Writing Flaherty, Francis. Elements of Story Freedman, Samuel G.. Letters to a Young Journalist Grobel, Lawrence. Art of the Interview Lamott, Anne. Bird by Bird Stewart, James B.. Follow the Story Zinsser, William. On Writing Well Zobel, Louise Purwin. Travel Writer's Handbook

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Directories

Agent Query Editor & Publisher Yearbook Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents Literary Marketplace Writer's Market

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Organizations

American Press Institute American Society of Journalists and Authors Association of Authors' Representatives National Press Foundation National Writer's Union Society of American Travel Writers Society of Professional Journalists

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Journalism

Columbia Journalism Review Excellence in Journalism Journalist's Toolbox Longform Newslab Paid Content Poynter ProfNet Pulitzer

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Travel

Globe Corner Bookstore Tourism Offices Worldwide Directory U.S. Government, Background Notes U.S. Government, Country Studies U.S. State Department

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General Resources

Link List

Gotham Reading/Resources Lists New York Times Navigator Ref Desk University of Texas Reference Yahoo Reference

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Reference

Bartleby Encyclopedia Britannica First Chapters Google Google Earth Google Maps Lexis/Nexis Library of Congress National Geographic Atlas Poets & Writers Tools for Writers Shaw Guides US Copyright Office Wikipedia

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Words/Usage

American Heritage Dictionary Associated Press Stylebook Chicago Manual of Style Elements of Style Merriam-Webster Dictionary/Thesaurus (online) Oxford English Dictionary (2 volume) Oxford English Dictionary (20 volume) Oxford English Dictionary (online) Roget's II Thesaurus (alphabetized) Roget's International Thesaurus (categorized) University of Calgary Grammar Guide

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