Collected Essays 1: Amateur Journalism

By H.P. Lovecraft

Book Overview

Discovering the amateur press in 1914, Lovecraft immediately flooded the many small papers of his friends and colleagues with contributions discussing the nature, purpose, and future of amateur... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0972164421
• ISBN13: 9780972164429
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Hippocampus Press
• Length: 444 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Amateur Journalism

Amateur journalists originally wrote prose and poetry for "journals" which they set in type, printed, and exchanged with others. Lovecaft wrote his essays as Editor or Critic for an amateur journalism association in the period (1914-1925) before the printing press was supplemented and gradually replaced by other means. Still in the future were the copy machine, computer word processor, and "Blogging," which combine to wheedle some amateur writers and printers away or to the production of "e-journals" which are not yet fully accepted. His essays as Amateur Journalism Critic will be of interest to historians, current amateur journalists (Association names are on the Web), and Lovecraft aficionados) Lovecraft essays on other topics are in four volumes by the same publsher.