The Best American Magazine Writing 2012

by American Society of Magazine Editors; McDonell, Terry

• ISBN13: 9780231162234
• ISBN10: 0231162235
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-12-11
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

Chosen from the nominees and winners of the 2012 National Magazine Awards, this year's anthology covers a range of developments in culture, commerce, society, and politics, from the passing of Steve Jobs to the controversy over breast cancer research funding, from the ongoing trauma of battle-scarred soldiers to the resurgence of issues concerning women's safety and health. Always engaging and informative, the Best American Magazine Writing remains the most popular, go-to resource for innovative journalism and unique perspective. Selections include Matthieu Aikins ( Esquire ) on the shady dealings and shifting sands of the war in Afghanistan; Nicholas Schmidle ( The New Yorker ) on the Obama Administration's masterful plot to kill Osama bin Laden; the late Christopher Hitchens ( Vanity Fair ) on the physical and emotional toll of cancer, and Joel Stein ( TIME ) on the Kardashian phenomenon and the propensity for politicians and other popular figures to get into trouble on the internet. John Jeremiah Sullivan ( New York Times Magazine ) takes his family on a roller-coaster ride through Disneyland, Wesley Yang ( New York ) explores the pressure on Asian-Americans to succeed and the psychological and cultural consequences when they don't, Bill Heavey ( Field & Stream ) writes eloquently and intimately about hunting and the sportsman's life, and Luke Dittrich ( Esquire ) and Michael Paterniti ( GQ ) share the raw experiences of those who survived 2011's worst natural disasters: the Japanese earthquake and exceptionally severe tornados in the American Midwest. Fiction includes the long-awaited short story by novelist Jonathan Franzen, "Ambition," published in McSweeney's Quarterly, and Karen Russell's "The Hox River Window," featured in Zoetrope: All-Story.

Author Biography

Sid Holt is chief executive of-the American Society of Magazine Editors and the former editor in chief of Adweek Magazines. During his seven years as managing editor of Rolling Stone, the magazine was nominated for four and won one National Magazine Award for General Excellence. Terry McDonell began his career in magazines in the mid-1970s. He was one of the launch editors of Outside and the founding editor of Rocky Mountain before joining Rolling Stone as managing editor in 1981, then Newsweek as assistant managing editor in 1983. He launched Smart in 1984 and later edited Esquire, Sports Afield, and Mens Journal before overseeing the relaunch of Us as a weekly in 1999. Appoints managing editor of Sports Illustrated in 2002, he became editor of the Time Inc. Sports Group in 2005. He was elected to the Magazine Editors' Hall of Fame in 2012.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Joplin!: Esquire: Winner-Feature Writing	p. 3
The Apostate: The New Yorker Winner-Reporting	p. 31
Excerpts from The Encyclopedia of 9/11: New York: Winner-Single-Topic Issue	p. 107
Wall Street Isn't Winning-It's Cheating and Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette Moment and How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests: Rolling Stone: Finalist-Commentary, Digital Media	p. 141
Too Much Information: GQ: Finalist-Essays and Criticism	p. 165
Our Man in Kandahar: The Atlantic: Finalist-Reporting	p. 187
Arms and the Dudes: Rolling Stone: Finalist-Feature Writing	p. 207
The Invisible Army: The New Yorker: Winner-Public Interest	p. 243
The Secret That Kills Four Women a Day: Glamour: Winner-Personal Service	p. 267
The Signature Wound: Men's Health: Finalist-Public Interest	p. 281
Fractured: Good Housekeeping: Finalist-Personal Service	p. 297
Dewayne Dedmon's Leap of Faith: Sports Illustrated: Finalist-Profile Writing	p. 311
Paper Tigers: New York: Winner-Essays and Criticism	p. 335
Game of Her Life: ESPN the Magazine: Finalist-Profile Writing	p. 363
He Is Anonymous: D Magazine: Winner-Profile Writing	p. 381
Looking for a Model and The Right to Write and Content Management: The American Scholar: Winner-Commentary, Digital Media	p. 405
Duck Tape and America's Next Top Weiner and The End of Kardaschadenfreude: Time: Finalist-Columns and Commentary	p. 415
The Hox River Window: Zoetrope: All-Story: Winner-Fiction	p. 425
When the King Saved God and From Abbottabad to Worse and Unspoken Truths: Vanity Fair: Winner-Columns and Commentary	p. 455
National Magazine Awards 2012 Finalists and Winners	p. 481
National Magazine Awards for Digital Media 2012 Finalists and Winners	p. 491
National Magazine Awards 2012 Judges	p. 497
National Magazine Awards for Digital Media 2012 Judges	p. 505
ASME Board of Directors, 2011-12	p. 509
Permissions	p. 511
List of Contributors	p. 515
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