title: Reinventing the Feature Story: Mythic Cycles in American Literary Journalism
author: Stephanie Shapiro
description: "useful for scholars, students, and practitioners because it addresses big ideas that journalism and journalism history often ignore." -- <i>Berkely Hudson, University of Missouri in</i>
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  “Durai’s clean, news editing-honed writing style is enjoyable to read, and her
  fiction reveals that she is not done asking hard questions yet.”
  
  
  –The Straits Times
  
  
  “These ten stories are well-told with sharp, precise prose and some unexpected
  ways to look at the role of daily news in our lives beyond the now-common
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  writer with keen observation and imagination.”
  
  
  –Literary Hub
  
  
  “Durai unifies this collection around showing us how newspapers affect
  characters’ lives in different ways. But journalism itself isn’t at the core
  of these stories; cultural ‘norms’ and decorum, defiance, and societal
  expectations are.”
  
  
  –The Rumpus
  
  
  “We read fiction because we enjoy it. Fiction is especially good for passing
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