The Best American Magazine Writing 2019 presents articles honored by this year's National Magazine Awards, showcasing outstanding writing that addresses urgent topics such as justice, gender, power, and violence, both at home and abroad. The anthology features remarkable reporting, including the story of a teenager who tried to get out of MS-13, only to face deportation (ProPublica); an account of the genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar (Politico); and a sweeping California Sunday Magazine profile of an agribusiness empire. Other journalists explore the indications of environmental catastrophe, from invasive lionfish (Smithsonian) to the omnipresence of plastic (National Geographic). Personal pieces consider the toll of mass incarceration, including Reginald Dwayne Betts's ?Getting Out? (New York Times Magazine); ?This Place Is Crazy,? by John J. Lennon (Esquire); and Robert Wright's ?Getting Out of Prison Meant Leaving Dear Friends Behind? (Marshall Project with Vice). From the pages of the Atlantic and the New Yorker, writers and critics discuss prominent political figures: Franklin Foer's ?American Hustler? explores Paul Manafort's career of corruption; Jill Lepore recounts the emergence of Ruth Bader Ginsburg; and Caitlin Flanagan and Doreen St. F??lix reflect on the Kavanaugh hearings and #MeToo. Leslie Jamison crafts a portrait of the Museum of Broken Relationships (Virginia Quarterly Review), and Kasey Cordell and Lindsey B. Koehler ponder ?The Art of Dying Well? (5280). A pair of never-before-published conversations illuminates the state of the American magazine: New Yorker writer Ben Taub speaks to Eric Sullivan of Esquire about pursuing a career as a reporter, alongside Taub's piece investigating how the Iraqi state is fueling a resurgence of ISIS. And Karolina Waclawiak of BuzzFeed News interviews McSweeney's editor Claire Boyle about challenges and opportunities for fiction at small magazines. That conversation is inspired by McSweeney's winning the ASME Award for Fiction, which is celebrated here with a story by Lesley Nneka Arimah, a magical-realist tale charged with feminist allegory.
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Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-13
9780231190015
eBay Product ID (ePID)
8046556721
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Best American Magazine Writing 2019
Author
Sid Holt
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Journalism, Literary Theory
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
203mm
Item Width
133mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Editor
Sid Holt
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