The Literary Journalist as a Naturalist

“This volume presents powerful proof that, with its unique capacity to uncover and contextualize the facts of its stories while combining those facts with feelings, literary journalism brings to light like no other genre the complex entanglements of the human and more-than-human worlds, offering hope for the sort of radical change the current environmental emergency demands.” - Robert Alexander, Associate Professor in English language and Literature, Brock University, Canada This book is a scholarly anthology that proposes a deep discussion about the multiple ways in which narrative journalism has portrayed nature, human interactions with nature, the global actions and the consequences of activities that have either attempted to explore it, exploit it, harness it, dominate it, and protect it. This essay collection offers an academic framework for literary journalistic narratives about natureand includes the study of long form journalism originated in different corners of the world, all exploring human-non human-nature interactions in all their power, finitude, peril and urgency. Pablo Calvi is an Argentine-American writer and journalist. His long form, which appears in The Believer, Guernica Magazine, The Nation, and El Mercurio (Chile), has been listed as notable in Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing and Best American Nonrequired Reading. He is author of Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism (2019), a cultural history of literary journalism in the Americas. He teaches global journalism at Stony Brook University, USA, where he is the associate director for Latin America at the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting.