This second and concluding volume of the great American novelist Theodore Dreiser's autobiography offers a compelling insider's view of the rough-and- tumble milieu of turn-of-the-century popular journalism, in what Dreiser himself calls "a period of orgy and crime". Following Dawn, Dreiser's candid account of his raw youth from 1871-1890 (reissued by Black Sparrow in 1998), Newspaper Days chronicles the would-be literary man's apprenticeship as reporter, travelling correspondent, drama editor and staff feature writer for papers in Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and New York from 1890-1899. Recounted with all the vivid, gritty detail of Dreiser's best realist novels, the story here unfolds as a cautionary tale of innocence lost. (This annotated version restores the numerous sexually explicit passages cut from the first edition, published in 1922.) In 1890, with high hopes, nineteen-year-old Theodore takes a job on the