Journalism
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Hate, Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another
$17.95 Read moreIn this characteristically turbocharged book, now in a new post-election edition, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider’s guide to the variety of ways today’s mainstream … [more below]
- Author: Taibbi, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1682194078
- Language: English
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The Best True Crime Stories of the Year 2025
$17.95 Add to cartThis inaugural edition of what will be a yearly collection offers a fascinating variety of essays and crime reporting, taken from regional, national, and international publications. The stories range … [more below]
- Series: Best True Crime Stories
- Author: Preston, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1613167105
- Language: English
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Being There: Memoir of an Asian American Journalist
$24.95 Add to cartIn the brisk, evocative prose of a seasoned television journalist, Lori Matsukawa describes her astonishing journey from a humble childhood in Hawaii to a stellar career as one of the nation’s best lo… [more below]
- Author: Matsukawa, Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: May 19 2026
- ISBN10: 1634051068
- Language: English
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The Years of Blood: Stories from a Reporting Life in Latin America
$26.95 Add to cartFor forty years and more Alma Guillermoprieto has wandered tirelessly over the countries of Latin America, interviewing assassins and the families of their victims, talking to street sweepers and arti… [more below]
- Series: American Encounters/Global Interactions
- Author: Guillermoprieto, Alma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1478031395
- Language: English
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Mornings with Madden
$28.00 Add to cartAn intimate and freewheeling portrait of John Madden through the NFL legend’s own words
John Madden is synonymous with football. He was the television face and voice of the nation’s most popular spor- Author: Bunger, Stan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1637276540
- Language: English
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The Journalist and the Murderer
$18.00 Add to cartA seminal work and examination of the psychopathology of journalism. Using a strange and unprecedented lawsuit by a convicted murder againt the journalist who wrote a book about his crime, Malcolm del… [more below]
- Author: Malcolm, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 1990
- ISBN10: 0679731830
- Language: English
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Free Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader
$65.00 Add to cartFree Chicago: 50 Years of the Reader is an oversized coffee table book that tells the incredible story of the nation’s longest surviving free city paper.
In Chicago in 1971, a group of friends gathered
- Author: Hass, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798218515577
- Language: English
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Empire of Ink: The Printers, Rogues, and Radicals Who Invented the American Newspaper
$34.00 Read moreA sweeping history of America’s first media revolution: the rise of the newspaper, and the transformation of a fledgling republic into the world’s first information superpower.
“Takes us beyond the f- Author: Wright, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 16 2026
- ISBN10: 1541606795
- Language: English
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Love and Desire in the Promised Land: The Private Lives of Israelis and Palestinians
$24.99 Read moreLove and Desire in the Promised Land gives voice to a dozen real-life citizens of Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank who navigate messy boundaries in their homes and bedrooms against a background of geop… [more below]
- Author: Parent-Rachdi, Salomé
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 09 2026
- ISBN10: 9798875001697
- Language: English
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On Air: The Triumph and Tumult of NPR
$22.00 Add to cartAn “engrossing and entertaining…major work of media history” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires. … [more below]
- Author: Oney, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 1451656106
- Language: English
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The Age of Movies: Selected Writings of Pauline Kael: A Library of America Special Publication
$29.95 Add to cartA master film critic is at her witty, exhilarating, and opinionated best in this career-spanning collection featuring pieces on Bonnie and Clyde, The Godfather, and other modern movie classics
“Film- Author: Kael, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1598535080
- Language: English
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Dark Alliance: Movie Tie-In Edition: The Cia, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion
$26.95 Add to cart“Presents the results of journalist Gary Webb’s investigation into the roots of the crack cocaine epidemic in South Central Los Angeles– a story that cost him his job after he uncovered evidence that… [more below]
- Author: Webb, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1609806212
- Language: English
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The New New Journalism: Conversations with America’s Best Nonfiction Writers on Their Craft
$21.00 Add to cartForty years after Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, and Gay Talese launched the New Journalism movement, Robert S. Boynton sits down with nineteen practitioners of what he calls the New New Journalism to… [more below]
- Author: Boynton, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 08 2005
- ISBN10: 140003356X
- Language: English
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What Is Journalism For?
$13.95 Add to cartWhat is at stake when journalism is threatened? Does society still need journalists?
Journalism faces multiple threats today all over the world: economic decline, online disinformation, the rise of AI
- Series: What Is It For?
- Author: Allsop, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: April 08 2025
- ISBN10: 1529238552
- Language: English
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The Best American Travel Writing
$19.99 Add to cartIn his introduction to The Best American Travel Writing 2008, editor Anthony Bourdain writes that the pieces that “spoke the loudest and most powerfully to me were usually evocative of the darker side… [more below]
- Series: Best American
- Author: Wilson, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0618858644
- Language: English
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Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes, and Mysteries
$30.00 Add to cartIn Messiahs, Meshugganahs, Misanthropes & Mysteries, Bob Levin, with his characteristic open-mindedness and intellectual curiosity, enters into and investigates the artistic sensibilities of cartoonis… [more below]
- Author: Levin, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 9798875000201
- Language: English
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The Hidden Island
$19.95 Add to cart“Abraham Jim?nez Enoa writes like an angel and has an impressively keen social radar…He’s an exceptional interlocutor, and, for readers of this unmissable book, he’s an empathic, sincere guide to hi
- Author: Jiménez Enoa, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1632462095
- Language: English
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Race to the Cape: The Daring News Chase, the Birth of the Associated Press, and the Journalist at the Heart of it All
$24.99 Add to cart“In New York and Boston, the men who own the papers are rich and connected. They don’t have to chase news; news comes to them. But we chase news! We go out and find the news.”
Nearly two centuries ago,
- Author: O’Leary, Theresa M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 199068856X
- Language: English
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How to Drag a Body and Other Safety Tips You Hope to Never Need
$18.99 Add to cartAs we have seen with the recent COVID-19 pandemic, disaster preparedness is not a luxury.
Everyone from Louis Pasteur to the Girl Scouts has championed the motto “Be Prepared”–but what does that mean
- Author: Matloff, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0063479575
- Language: English
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Fake News
$12.95 Add to cartA pithy, vibrant and accessible explainer to the past, present and future of fake news, from Ancient Greece to Donald Trump and beyond.
Anyone can go online, write something about what’s going on the- Series: Pocket Primer
- Author: Stokel-Walker, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1914314859
- Language: English
