{"product_id":"9781501313202","title":"Writing the 9\/11 Decade : Reportage and the Evolution of the Novel","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWriting the 9\/11 Decade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Charlie Lee-Potter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting the 9\/11 Decade \u003c\/i\u003einvestigates the relation of the novel to reportage, and the role of both\u003cbr\u003ein shaping culture, by looking at novelists' journalistic responses to the September 11 attacks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJournalist and academic Charlie Lee-Potter argues that novelists were entrapped by the\u003cbr\u003eexpectation that they would provide an immediate non-fiction response to 9\/11. Beginning with\u003cbr\u003ean examination of the sometimes mawkish writing that emerged in the days after the attacks,\u003cbr\u003eWriting the 9\/11 Decade traces the evolution of literary journalism – in writers such as Ian\u003cbr\u003eMcEwan, Paul Auster, Don DeLillo, Mohsin Hamid and Nadeem Aslam – into new methods\u003cbr\u003eof subsuming the disaster, while attempting to stand apart from it. It includes interviews with\u003cbr\u003enovelists such as Richard Ford, Amy Waldman and Kamila Shamsie, as well as the only longform\u003cbr\u003einterview granted by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, who is\u003cbr\u003ehimself a 9\/11 survivor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn assessing the novel's capacity to respond to and contain an unimagined traumatic event,\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWriting the 9\/11 Decade \u003c\/i\u003estands as a contemporary history of the form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eWriting the 9\/11 Decade\u003c\/i\u003e takes a unique approach by situating 9\/11 novels within the larger contexts provided by journalism, art, and popular culture and supplementing its nuanced analysis of those novels with in-depth interviews from authors and other figures who played a significant role in interpreting the September 11 attacks for the American public … [It] will be of value to scholars who study collective memory and popular culture, as well as any readers interested in better understanding the ways that meaning gets made in the aftermath of collective trauma.” - \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant and original post-mortem on the literary response to 9\/11. Charlie Lee-Potter's searching examination of some of the key novels that were written in the aftermath of the catastrophe sheds a sometimes uncomfortable light on contemporary fiction and its uneasy relationship with journalism and the wider culture.\" - \u003ci\u003eMark Thompson, President and Chief Executive Officer, The New York Times Company, USA\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a scholarly and wise account of how writers came to terms with the unspeakable horrors of 9\/11. Charlie Lee-Potter’s experience in journalism, and her analysis of how authors of fiction responded to the catastrophe in New York, combine into a compelling account of how we tell a story that has changed the age in which we live.\" - \u003ci\u003eRoger Mosey, former Head of BBC Television News and Master of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If journalism offers the first, flawed, draft of history, fiction has time and space for a richer, more personal, response. Charlie Lee-Potter invites us to reassess the meaning of 9\/11 and, through fiction, the shadow it continues to cast across our lives.\" - \u003ci\u003eRichard Sambrook, former Director of BBC News and Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University, UK\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781501313202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40648210481358,"sku":"9781501313202","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_de2492e6-6e1d-45b6-9cc4-e69d4779542f.jpg?v=1639191568","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781501313202","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}