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.

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