Janet Malcolm down under: in the classroom, on our desks
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2024
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Joseph, S.
Ricketson, M.
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Literary Journalism Studies, 2024; 15(1):119-137
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When Janet Malcolm died in June 2021 there was a global outpouring of both sorrow and testimony. Renowned for her acute thinking and coolly rendered insight into human illusions, Malcolm leaves behind a legacy of incisive and elegant literary journalism. Malcolm wrote for The New Yorker, and sometimes for The New York Review of Books, between 1963 and 2021, as well as eight book-length works of journalism and four collections of essays. This study investigates how Australian practitioners were influenced, or not, by her writings. Helen Garner, perhaps the best known and most controversial of Australian practitioners, praises Malcolm's work. Ten more Australian writers, journalists, and educators provide reflections on Malcolm's impact. Considering Malcolm's influence on Australians, the authors ask why her work is not lauded as important literary journalism by scholarship about the field.
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Copyright 2024 International Association for Literary Journalism Studies