The Best American Magazine Writing 2008
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The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 is an essential guide to the year's most entertaining, politically charged, and sophisticated essays and fiction, offering a rare opportunity to experience in a single volume the top work of veteran reporters, critically acclaimed writers, and up-and-coming journalists. Only in this annual anthology will you find the best of the finalists for the 2008 National Magazine Awards, which include a critique of the Bush administration, a takedown of snark culture, personal reflections on child abuse accompanied by a profile of Hollywood's biggest villain, and…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 is an essential guide to the year's most entertaining, politically charged, and sophisticated essays and fiction, offering a rare opportunity to experience in a single volume the top work of veteran reporters, critically acclaimed writers, and up-and-coming journalists. Only in this annual anthology will you find the best of the finalists for the 2008 National Magazine Awards, which include a critique of the Bush administration, a takedown of snark culture, personal reflections on child abuse accompanied by a profile of Hollywood's biggest villain, and an exposé of America's backbreaking coal mines, along with Alice Munro's ( Harper's Magazine) and David Foster Wallace's ( New Yorker) most recent short stories. Other 2008 award finalists are: Peter Hessler's tour of China's instant cities ( National Geographic); Jane Mayer's peek inside the CIA's secret interrogation program ( New Yorker); William Langewiesche's account of gangland's hold on São Paolo ( Vanity Fair); Paige Williams's story of one girl's escape from Burundi ( Atlanta Magazine); Steve Oney's probing investigation into the unforeseen casualties of the Iraq War ( Los Angeles Magazine); Kurt Andersen's incisive commentary on American greed ( New York Magazine); Matt Taibbi's profile of Barack Obama ( Rolling Stone); Caitlin Flannagan's feminist perspective on the abortion debate ( The Atlantic); and Tom Carson's nostalgic lament for the leading men of old Hollywood ( GQ). Fiction finalists include Daniel Mason's "Death of the Puglist" ( Harper's Magazine); Steven Millhauser's "A Report on Our Recent Troubles" ( Harper's Magazine); Antonya Nelson's "Or Else" ( New Yorker); Uzodinma Iweala's "Speak No Evil" ( Paris Review); Alistair Morgan's "Icebergs" ( Paris Review); Andrew Malan Millward's "The Burning of Lawrence" ( Zoetrope: All-Story); and Fiona McFarlane's "Those Americans Falling from the Sky" ( Zoetrope: All-Story).
Autorenporträt
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) is a nonprofit professional organization for editors of print and online magazines edited, published, and distributed in the United States. Established in 1963, ASME currently has around 900 members nationwide and, in association with the Columbia School of Journalism, sponsors the National Magazine Awards. Jacob Weisberg is editor in chief of the Slate Group. He has written for the New Republic, Newsweek, New York magazine, and Vanity Fair, and is the author of several books, including, most recently, The Bush Tragedy.