A bumper pack of multilayered and complex ‘slow journalism’

I was tremendously excited to hear that Soutie Press would be publishing a collection of SA nonfiction essays and articles. I love the genre, and what arrived on my doorstep was a big fat volume of 33 long-form, creative nonfiction pieces; I smacked my lips before diving in.

The term “creative nonfiction” was born in the 1960s, said co-editor Sean Christie at the Johannesburg launch of the book, as a response to traditional “beige journalism”, where facts are simply reported, such as that published in many newspapers and some magazines...

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