Paper Details

Name: Gurpreet Kaur
Country: India

Year: 2015
Volume: Volume-2, Issue-1 (January-June)
Page Number: 35-42

In the field of journalism, facts are not always appealing. They complicate plenty of great pieces. Background details can weigh down graceful copy. Clarifications may crowd out the heart of a story. It is a lot of work to settle a point that most readers don‟t care about anyway. But somehow, even in this magnificentage of commentary, for people who do still care about facts, journalistic fiction is a field of concern.
In the frontline of the new journalists are some interesting writers and their writings: Hiroshima (1946) by John Hersey; In Cold Blood: A True Account of Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (1966) by Truman Capote; Armies of the Night: History as a novel/History as Novel (1968), Of a Fire on the Moon (1970) and The Executioner’s Song (1979) by Norman Mailer; The Dreams of Ada (1987) by Dennis Fritz; Libra (1988), Underworld (1997) and Falling Man (2007) by Don DeLillo; and The Innocent Man (2006) by John Grisham. Some texts in the Indian context which can be put under this category are Sonia Faleiro‟s The Beautiful Thing, Katherine Boo‟s Behind the Beautiful Forevers (2012), and Payal Shah Karwa‟s The Bad Touch dealing with the penetrating subjects like life of bar dancers, trash collectors, and child sex abuse, respectively. Though the style of all these writers may not be similar, but their approach is. All of these texts have been regarded as journalistic fiction, being based on rich research.