Lecture: B. J. Phillips
Location
University Center
Event Website
http://www.undwritersconference.org
Start Date
16-3-1976 3:00 PM
End Date
16-3-1976 4:00 PM
Description
In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 16, 1976, as part of the 7th Annual UND Writers Conference: “New Journalism and the Novel,” B.J. Phillips delivers a lecture about her experiences as a journalist. Phillips discusses her career as a professional journalist, her dissatisfaction and decision to leave the field of journalism, her methods and motivations in journalism, reads a section of a story on Belfast and IRA families, her sense of the craft of journalism, the distinction between fiction and reporting, her novel-in-progress on Karen Silkwood, and challenges presented by libel laws in the United States.
Lecture: B. J. Phillips
University Center
In this audiovisual recording from Tuesday, March 16, 1976, as part of the 7th Annual UND Writers Conference: “New Journalism and the Novel,” B.J. Phillips delivers a lecture about her experiences as a journalist. Phillips discusses her career as a professional journalist, her dissatisfaction and decision to leave the field of journalism, her methods and motivations in journalism, reads a section of a story on Belfast and IRA families, her sense of the craft of journalism, the distinction between fiction and reporting, her novel-in-progress on Karen Silkwood, and challenges presented by libel laws in the United States.
https://commons.und.edu/writers-conference/1976/day1/2
Comments
Permissions pending, digitization planned.