International Association for Literary Journalism Studies
The Newsletter of the International Association for Literary Journalism Studies (Vol. 11, no. 4, Fall 2017.) What first caught my myopic eye was the President´s letter, where Isabel Soares , from the Universidade de Lisboa, writes: “Twelve years ago is a long time for some of us to have any recollections of how IALJS came into existence.” Twelve years ago is a long time? What is ago doing there? That was the first red flag I noticed. And then, after finding in the newsletter some more grammatical lapses, I came to the gem, the hub, the crème de la créme of articles, the one entitled Quality Sports Journalism , with the promising subtitle “ A space devoted to the study of the use of language and narrative and ethical aspects of journalism in general, and of sports journalism in particular.” After reading that heading I was stunned, flabbergasted and irked to dicover gems like: “The sports information is, together with which is about fashion, the journal...