Journalism/Media/Writing

News writing: The gathering , handling and writing of news stories

M. Lyle Spencer

This work is a practical handbook for aspiring journalists, written by M. Lyle Spencer in 1917.

Calamities and Quarrels of Authors

Isaac Disraeli

The work is a nineteenth‑century literary essay that treats the misfortunes of writers as a subject of…

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915

Various

The Menorah Journal, Volume 1 (1915) is a collective publication that serves as the official organ of the…

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 1, January 1810

The Mirror of Taste and Dramatic Censor opens as a manifesto for a new kind of periodical, arguing that…

The History of "Punch"

M. H. Spielmann

The History of “Punch” is a scholarly study of the nineteenth‑century British satirical weekly, assembled by…

The Civilization of Illiteracy

Mihai Nadin

The work is a sociolinguistic and cultural study that interrogates the decline of conventional literacy in…

Public opinion

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann’s Public Opinion is a sweeping study of how societies construct and act upon collective…

The Great American Fraud The Patent Medicine Evil

Samuel Hopkins Adams

The work is a polemical exposé that sets out to dismantle the patent‑medicine industry of turn‑of‑the‑century…

The book review digest, Volume 02, 1906

Various

The Book Review Digest, Volume 02 (1906) is a reference work that assembles the year’s most noteworthy…

The whole truth and nothing but

Hopper, Hedda; Brough, James

The book is a sprawling memoir that blends personal recollection with behind‑the‑scenes gossip about…

The Seven Lively Arts

Gilbert Seldes

Gilbert Seldes’s The Seven Lively Arts is a nonfiction meditation on the early American entertainment scene,…

How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers

Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

This handbook, written by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer after twelve years of teaching university students how to…

The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874

Various

The Catholic World, Vol. 19 (April–September 1874) is a scholarly periodical that gathers essays on Catholic…

American nights entertainment

Grant M. Overton

Grant Overton’s American Nights Entertainment is a scholarly miscellany that gathers essays on a handful of…

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851

Various

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May 1851, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends literary…

The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated

James Edmund Harting

The work is a scholarly survey that treats Shakespeare’s references to birds as a distinct field of…

Forty-Five Years of Digitizing Ebooks: Project Gutenberg's Practices

Gregory B. Newby

The work is a nonfiction account that traces the evolution of a pioneering digital library from its modest…

Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922

H. P. Lovecraft

The work is a nonfiction collection of essays by H. P. Lovecraft that examines the United Amateur Press…

Crystallizing Public Opinion

Edward L. Bernays

Edward L. Bernays’s Crystallizing Public Opinion is a systematic treatise on the emerging profession of…

The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature

Frank Parsons

Frank Parsons’s The World’s Best Books is a self‑conscious guide to literary selection, presented as the…

British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871

Various

The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831

Various

The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831, is a single‑issue periodical that gathers a series of…

100 New Yorkers of the 1970s

Max Millard

The book is a nonfiction collection of interviews that Max Millard conducted while working for the…

The So-called Human Race

Bert Leston Taylor

The So‑Called Human Race is a collection of witty snippets, quips and short observations that originally…