Fascinating discussion on (distorted) transcription of recorded speech. Gets into some thorny matters of trust, truth, and linguistic complexity:
https://languagehat.com/janet-malcolm-vs-english-as-she-is-spoke/

#language #journalism #reporting #JanetMalcolm #linguistics #speech

« L’année 2024 marque les 90 ans de la naissance de deux journalistes qui ont contribué à l’avènement d’un nouveau type de journalisme, la “narrative non-fiction”. Elles ont fait le récit des enquêtes menées sur deux affaires sordides qui ont marqué les Etats-Unis. » https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/recits-d-enquete/de-joan-didion-a-janet-malcolm-quand-le-journalisme-litteraire-mene-l-enquete-2989420

#joandidion #janetmalcolm

De Joan Didion à Janet Malcolm, quand le journalisme littéraire mène l'enquête

L’année 2024 marque les 90 ans de la naissance de deux journalistes qui ont contribué à l’avènement d’un nouveau type de journalisme, la “narrative non-fiction”. Elles ont fait le récit des enquêtes menées sur deux affaires sordides qui ont marqué les Etats-Unis.

France Culture

“Malcolm’s memoir slips into being a commentary on memoir. Most autobiography assumes a proximity...This one argues instead that memories must be fought for..."

CRC Director Katie Roiphe on #JanetMalcolm’s “Still Pictures" for @TheAtlantic

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2023/01/janet-malcolm-still-pictures-book-memoir-autobiography/672728/

#book #bookreview #journalism

Janet Malcolm Hides in Her Own Autobiography

Janet Malcolm’s autobiography presents an argument about the fundamental murkiness of autobiography itself.

The Atlantic
I hope you subscribe to #AirMail, because you REALLY oughtta read this #ErrolMorris piece about #JanetMalcolm https://airmail.news/issues/2023-1-21/the-postmodernist-and-the-drowning-man
According to Janet Malcolm, She's a Journalist, Not a Murderer

In "Still Pictures," Janet Macolm's posthumously published essay collection, the journalist details going on trial for libel—argues that she's innocent.

Air Mail

In January's newsletter, I recommended Janet Malcolm's IN THE FREUD ARCHIVES, Dwyer Murphy's AN HONEST LIVING, and Ross Macdonald's THREE NOVELS OF THE EARLY 1960S. Archives, book mysteries, murder!

You can read it here:
http://bit.ly/3XsJQ3f

#JanetMalcolm #DwyerMurphy #RossMacdonald #Books

Plain Pleasures: Investigations, Invitations

"Chekhov’s strange, coded works almost force us to sound them for hidden meanings... we don’t want to miss the clues that Chekhov has scattered about his garden and covered with last year’s leaves. These leaves are fixtures of Chekhov’s world ...and exemplify Chekhov’s way of endowing some small quiet natural phenomenon with #metaphorical meaning... Reading #Chekhov: A Critical Journey by #JanetMalcolm #nonfiction #bookstodon #books #RussianLiterature #essay #literature https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1107183.Reading_Chekhov
Reading Chekhov

A perfect match of author and subject. In an effort to know one of her favorite writers better. Janet Malcolm -- who has brought light to...

A Look Back at 'Diana & Nikon: Essays on Photography' by Janet Malcolm

A look at an influential book with writings on photography by the late writer and New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm.

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