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The Haunted House
Stimpson, Catharine R. | June 25, 1990 issue

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This article presents information on the book "The Journalist and the Murderer," by Janet Malcolm. Malcolm believes in freedom of the press but not in its innocence. She deploys demystifying metaphors for the relationship between journalist and subject. In one, a figure of eros gone wrong, the journalist is a seductive confidence man who fleeces a "credulous widow." Malcolm focuses on an aristocratic form of journalism, the long nonfiction essay. Her journalist is that anguished modern figure, the private detective stuck with reality; Malcolm specializes in the realities of an encounter between reader and text; and between interviewer and subject.

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JOURNALIST & the Murderer, The (Book); JOURNALISTS; JOURNALISM; MALCOLM, Janet; BOOKS; AUTHORS
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