A treasury of great magazine pieces drawn from the winners of and finalists for the prestigious National Magazine Awards
In the world of magazines, no recognition is more highly coveted than an "Ellie," the National Magazine Award presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors. This is the magazine equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize. Nominees and winners are chosen by hundreds of editors, educators, and art directors from more than a thousand submissions. These selections are among the very best of those.
The Best American Magazine Writing anthology puts between the covers of a single book some of the most outstanding writing by some of the most eminent writers in this country.
"My Father's Brain" Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker
"The Crash of EgyptAir 990" William Langewiesche, The Atlantic Monthly
"Inside the Battle at Qala-i-Jangi" Alex Perry, Time Magazine
"Dr. Daedalus" Lauren Slater, Harper's Magazine
"Salt Chic" Jeffrey Steingarten, Vogue
"Playing God on No Sleep" Anna Quindlen, Newsweek
"Sullivan's Travels" Michael Wolff, New York Magazine
"Moving" Anne Fadiman, The American Scholar
And much more! Brilliant and illuminating, this book is for anyone who appreciates magazine writing and journalism at their highest level.
The American Society of Magazine Editors is the professional organization for editors of consumer magazines that are edited, published, and sold in the United States. It sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

The Best American Magazine Writing 2002

Literature & Fiction

American Society of Magazine Editors

Essays & Correspondence

Harper-perennial

In the magazine world, no recognition is more highly coveted than an "Ellie," presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The finalists and winners are chosen from more than a thousand submissions, and the stories in this anthology represent the very best of those outstanding works by some of the most eminent writers in the country. Among them are:
"The Most Dangerous Beauty" Michael Paterniti, GQ
"A Piece of Cotton" Anne Fadiman, The American Scholar
"Lying in Wait" Gary Smith, Sports Illustrated
"Horseman, Pass By" John Jeremiah Sullivan, Harper’s
"In the Party of God" Jeffrey Goldberg, The New Yorker
"Jewish Power, Jewish Peril" Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair
"The Fifty-first State?" James Fallows, The Atlantic Monthly
"Terminal Ice" Ian Frazier, Outside
The American Society of Magazine Editors is the professional organization for editors of consumer magazines that are edited, published, and sold in the United States. It sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

The Best American Magazine Writing 2003

United States

In the magazine world, no recognition is more highly coveted than an "Ellie," presentedby the American Society of Magazine Editors. Selected from thousands of submissions, the pieces in this anthology represent the very best of those -- outstanding works by some of the most eminent writers in America:
Laura Hillenbrand (Seabiscuit) on living and creating with chronic fatigue syndrome
Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) on love and surfing
Mark Bowden (Black Hawk Down) on modern torture and the "landscape of persuasion"
Seymour M. Hersh (Chain of Command) on the "selective intelligence" used by the White House to justify the war in Iraq
Calvin Trillin (The Tummy Trilogy) on his favorite force of nature, the newsman R. W. Apple, Jr.
Tucker Carlson (CNN's Crossfire), the "whitest man in America," on a peace mission with Rev. Al Sharpton
And many more!

The Best American Magazine Writing 2004

Best American Magazine Writing 2002

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