"Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Max Chafkin's oral history of Apple from Fast Company, Joshua Davis's intimate portrait of tech pioneer John McAfee's personal and public breakdown from Wired; Kyle Dickman's haunting investigation into the preventable death of nineteen firemen battling an Arizona wildfire; and Ariel Levy's emotional account of extreme travel to a remote land-while pregnant-from The New Yorker.
Other essays include Wright Thompson's bittersweet profile of Michael Jordan's fifty-something second act (ESPN the Magazine); Jean M. Twenge's revealing look at fertility myths and baby politics (The Atlantic); Janet Reitman's controversial study of the Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Rolling Stone); Luke Mogelson's harrowing experience accompanying asylum seekers on a potentially deadly sea voyage to Australia (New York Times Magazine); Lisa Miller's poignant report from Newtown, Connecticut, as the town tries to cope with the aftermath of one of the nation's worst mass shootings (New York); Emily Nussbaum's critiques of gender and politics on television (The New Yorker); and Witold Rybczynski's poetic engagement with modern architecture (Architect). The collection concludes with the award-winning poem ""Elegies"" by Kathleen Ossip (Poetry) and ""The Embassy of Cambodia,"" a short story by Zadie Smith (The New Yorker)."
Introduction by:
Mark Jannot
Edited by:
Sid Holt,
The American Society of Magazine Editors
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 203mm,
Width: 133mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 553g
ISBN: 9780231169578
ISBN 10: 0231169574
Pages: 512
Publication Date: 02 December 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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General/trade
,
Undergraduate
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction, by Mark Jannot, vice president, content, National Audubon Society, president, American Society of Magazine Editors Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors The Second Biggest Star in a Remote Little Burg Somewhere in Germany, by Tom Junod Apple Breaks the Mold: An Oral History, by Max Chafkin The Dream Boat, by Luke Mogelson Orders of Grief, by Lisa Miller Jahar's World, by Janet Reitman Thanksgiving in Mongolia, by Ariel Levy Shark Week and Difficult Women and Private Practice, by Emily Nussbaum Overexposed and Radical Revival and Behind the Facade, by Witold Rybczynski Sliver of Sky, by Barry Lopez Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us, by Steven Brill How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby?, by Jean M. Twenge Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building, by Wright Thompson Bret, Unbroken, by Steve Friedman Dangerous, by Joshua Davis The Sinking of the Bounty, by Matthew Shaer Nineteen: The Yarnell Hill Fire, by Kyle Dickman Elegies, by Kathleen Ossip The Embassy of Cambodia, by Zadie Smith Permissions List of Contributors
The American Society of Magazine Editors is the principal organization for magazine journalists in the United States. ASME sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Sid Holt is chief executive of the American Society of Magazine Editors and a former editor at Rolling Stone and Adweek magazines.
