TY - BOOK AU - Editors,The American Society of Magazine AU - Holt,Sid AU - Jannot,Mark TI - The Best American Magazine Writing 2014 SN - 9780231169578 AV - PS659.2 .B478 2014eb U1 - 810.9352664 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - American prose literature KW - 21st century KW - Journalism KW - Awards KW - United States KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction /; Jannot, Mark --; Acknowledgments --; The Second Biggest Star in a Remote Little Burg Somewhere in Germany /; Junod, Tom --; Apple Breaks the Mold /; Chafkin, Max --; The Dream Boat /; Mogelson, Luke --; Orders of Grief /; Miller, Lisa --; Jahar's World /; Reitman, Janet --; Thanksgiving in Mongolia /; Levy, Ariel --; Shark Week and Difficult Women and Private Practice /; Nussbaum, Emily --; Overexposed and Radical Revival and Behind the Façade /; Rybczynski, Witold --; Sliver of Sky /; Lopez, Barry --; Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us /; Brill, Steven --; How Long Can You Wait to Have a Baby? /; Twenge, Jean M. --; Michael Jordan Has Not Left the Building /; Thompson, Wright --; Bret, Unbroken /; Friedman, Steve --; Dangerous /; Davis, Joshua --; The Sinking of the Bounty /; Shaer, Matthew --; Nineteen: The Yarnell Hill Fire /; Dickman, Kyle --; Elegies /; Ossip, Kathleen --; The Embassy of Cambodia /; Smith, Zadie --; Permissions --; Contributors; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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) UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/asme16957 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780231539517.jpg ER -