Titanic Survivors Found in Bermuda Triangle (Further Reading)

Further Reading

• Bird, S. Elizabeth, For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids, University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

  Bird's analysis is particularly interesting for its emphasis on the historical antecedents of the tabloid reporting that is popular in the early 2000s.

• Glynn, Kevin, Tabloid Culture: Trash Taste, Popular Power, and the Transformation of American Television, Duke University Press, 2000.

  A scholar from New Zealand, Glynn has an outsider perspective that helps Americans see the growing influence of tabloid newspapers and television shows as reflections of their contemporary life.

• Sartisky, Michael, "Robert Olen Butler: A Pulitzer Profile," in The Future of Southern Writers, edited by Jefferson Humphries and John Lowe, Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 155-69.

  This 1994 interview, recorded when Butler was still pigeonholed as a "Vietnam" writer, chronicles the author's jump from obscurity to fame with his Pulitzer Prize win the year before.

• Schumock, Jim, "Robert Olen Butler," in Story Story Story: Conversations with American Authors, Black Heron Press, 1999, pp. 201-13.

  This interview covers Butler's life up to the end of the century and includes a long discussion of the ideas behind Tabloid Dreams.

• Trucks, Rob, "A Conversation with Robert Olen Butler," in The Pleasure of Influence: Conversations with American Male Fiction Writers, NotaBell Books, Purdue University Press, 2002, pp. 65-88.

  As the title of Trucks' book implies, gender is a focal point in this interview. He does focus on the genesis of and the critical responses to Tabloid Dreams.