Overview

In the magazine world, no recognition is more highly coveted or prestigious than a National Magazine Award. Annually, members of the American Society of Magazine Editors, in association with the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, select the year's most dynamic, original, provocative, and influential magazine stories. The winning and finalist pieces in this anthology represent outstanding work by some of the most eminent writers in America as well as rising literary and journalistic talents. This prestigious collection includes stories that cover a variety of subjects from Elizabeth Kolbert's investigation into global warming in the New Yorker and James Bamford's look at the PR campaign behind the Iraq War in Rolling Stone to Chris Heath's remarkable profile of Merle Haggard in GQ and Bill Heavey's hilarious account of teaching his daughter to fish in Field and Stream. Other writers include David Foster Wallace (The Atlantic Monthly), Joyce Carol Oates (The Virginia Quarterly Review), Priscilla Long (The American Scholar), Jesse Katz (Los Angeles Magazine), Marjorie Williams (Vanity Fair), Hendrik Hertzberg (New Yorker), Sven Birkerts (The Virginia Quarterly Review), Erik Reece (Harper's), Wendy Brenner (The Oxford American), John Jeremiah Sullivan (GQ), James Wolcott (Vanity Fair), and Wyatt Mason (Harper's). Wide-ranging in their style and subjects, these writers' stories inform, surprise, entertain, and provide new perspectives on our world. They also reflect elements that distinguish the best in magazine writing: moral passion, investigative zeal, vivid characters and settings, persistent reporting, and artful writing.

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The best works of the year, cherry-picked and suitably delicious. -- Kirkus As always, this collection offers readers the opportunity to catch up on the best magazine writing they may have missed. -- Booklist If this anthology were a magazine, everybody would want to subscribe. -- Publishers Weekly You can finally ditch that magazine pile by the bed... The collection is diverse, brainy, and provocative. -- Rachel Leibrock, The Sacramento Bee -- Betty Anne Schwartz, RALPH These articles manage to sing...In this volume the sum is as great as its parts.

The best works of the year, cherry-picked and suitably delicious. -- Kirkus As always, this collection offers readers the opportunity to catch up on the best magazine writing they may have missed. -- Booklist If this anthology were a magazine, everybody would want to subscribe. -- Publishers Weekly You can finally ditch that magazine pile by the bed... The collection is diverse, brainy, and provocative. -- Rachel Leibrock, The Sacramento Bee These articles manage to sing...In this volume the sum is as great as its parts. -- Educational Book Review The Best American Magazine Writing 2006 contains some stunning essays, picturesque profiles, and one heartbreaking account of personal illness. -- Ben Eltham, Media International Australia

""The best works of the year, cherry-picked and suitably delicious."" -- Kirkus ""As always, this collection offers readers the opportunity to catch up on the best magazine writing they may have missed."" -- Booklist ""If this anthology were a magazine, everybody would want to subscribe."" -- Publishers Weekly ""You can finally ditch that magazine pile by the bed... The collection is diverse, brainy, and provocative."" -- Rachel Leibrock, The Sacramento Bee "" -- Betty Anne Schwartz, RALPH ""These articles manage to sing...In this volume the sum is as great as its parts.""

Author Information

Graydon Carter is an author and the editor in chief of Vanity Fair.The American Society of Magazine Editors is a nonprofit professional organization for editors of magazines that are edited, published, and sold in the United States. It sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia School of Journalism.

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