Submersion Journalism

Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper's Magazine

Edited by Bill Wasik

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Fifteen sparkling works of inside-out reportage—Harper's own house brand of "submersion journalism"—an unapologetically aggressive approach to reporting in an age of lies
A dazzling intellectual immersion. . . . Consistently challenging, even demanding, Harper’s power is in its ability to cause sometimes subtle, sometimes seismic shifts in a reader’s world view.
—NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD CITATION FOR GENERAL EXCELLENCE, 2006
Over the past several years, Harper’s Magazine has fostered an exciting brand of journalism, participatory, sometimes even undercover, in approach. The magazine’s correspondents have infiltrated the Republican machine, from its lowliest canvassing operation to its corporate and evangelical elite, and they have posed as shady clients for sleazy blue-chip lobbying firms. They have shot machine guns, lounged in Vegas brothels, and peered into secret tunnels in Mexicali. They have terrorized art museums and touched off worldwide fads.

Submersion Journalism collects the best of this reportage—by celebrated authors (William T. Vollmann, Barbara Ehrenreich) and fresh new voices (WellsTower, Jake Silverstein) alike—in a book that serves not just as a collection of strikingstories but also as a proclamation in favor of truth-telling instead of managed “news” and PR spin. The book is a defense of the radically first-person dispatch, filed from exactly those points of view where a reporter is not supposed to be.

Bill Wasik is a senior editor at Harper’s Magazine and the author of the forthcoming My Crowd: Experiments in Viral Culture. Roger D. Hodge is the editor of Harper’s Magazine. They both live in New York.
Fall 2009
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6 1/8 x 9 1/4, 336 pages
978-1-59558-479-3

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