Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: In his introduction to Life Stories, a collection of New Yorker Profiles, David Remnick confesses that "the Profile is a terribly hard form to get right." Conceived as a form to describe Manhattan celebrities, the genre now travels widely and along all emotional and occupational registers. One quality runs through many of the best Profiles, though, notes Remnick: a sense of obsession. The Book Man is one student's foray into the genre of the Profile. It was written in an Introduction to Creative Nonfiction course and is based on her service-learning experiences for which she earned an optional fourth credit.
Author: Courtney Hollender
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4413359746