The art of 'literary journalism'

Moraes wrote striking profiles of the people he met but he staked his own identity in those pieces. This is what makes his writing, his journalism, so exquisite

The latest book on the late Dom Moraes’ writings, Dom Moraes: Where Some Things Are Remembered: Profiles and Conversations, carries a blurb by Amitav Ghosh, who declares Moraes the “greatest prose stylist”. Superlatives aside, there is a curious phrase in the promotional material supplied by the publisher; it describes the book as a collection of the “finest literary journalism”. Whether or not Moraes is the finest, there cannot be a more apt phrase than “literary journalism” to describe the essays collected in this book. 

Moraes wrote striking profiles of the people he met but he staked his own identity in