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The Best American Magazine Writing 2017 / ed. by Sid Holt, The American Society of Magazine Editors.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231181594
  • 9780231543651
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 818.08 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Audubon -- Delusion Is the Thing with Feathers -- Worlds Apart -- The Revenge of Roger's Angels -- The List -- The Improvisational Oncologist -- Trump Days -- President Trump, Seriously and "Appetite for Destruction" and The Fury and Failure of Donald Trump -- Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic -- The Obama Doctrine -- Yellowstone -- My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard -- Bird in a Cage and The Ideology of Isolation and Giantess -- Ladies in Waiting -- The Reckoning -- Listening for the Country -- Permissions -- Contributors
Summary: With the work of reporters under fire worldwide, this year's anthology of National Magazine Award finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. The pieces included here explore the fault lines in American society. Shane Bauer's visceral "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard" (Mother Jones) and Sarah Stillman's depiction of the havoc wreaked on young people's lives when they are put on sex-offender registries (The New Yorker) examine controversial criminal-justice practices. And responses to the shocks of the recent election include Matt Taibbi's irreverent dispatches from the campaign trail (Rolling Stone), George Saunders's transfixing account of Trump's rallies (The New Yorker), and Andrew Sullivan's fears for the future of democracy (New York). In other considerations of the political scene, Jeffrey Goldberg talks through Obama's foreign-policy legacy with the former president (The Atlantic), and Gabriel Sherman analyzes how Roger Ailes's fall sheds light on conservative media (New York). Linking personal stories to the course of history, Nikole Hannah-Jones looks for a school for her daughter in a rapidly changing, racially divided Brooklyn (New York Times Magazine), and Pamela Colloff explores how the 1966 University of Texas Tower mass shooting changed the course of one survivor's life (Texas Monthly). A selection of Rebecca Solnit's Harper's commentary ranges from a writer on death row to the isolation at the heart of conservatism. Becca Rothfeld ponders women waiting on love from the Odyssey to Tinder (Hedgehog Review). Siddhartha Mukherjee depicts the art and agony of oncology (New York Times Magazine). David Quammen ventures to Yellowstone to consider the future of wild places (National Geographic), and Mac McClelland follows a deranged expedition to Cuba in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Audubon). The collection concludes with Zandria Robinson's eloquent portrait of her father as reflected in the music he loved (Oxford American).
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Audubon -- Delusion Is the Thing with Feathers -- Worlds Apart -- The Revenge of Roger's Angels -- The List -- The Improvisational Oncologist -- Trump Days -- President Trump, Seriously and "Appetite for Destruction" and The Fury and Failure of Donald Trump -- Democracies End When They Are Too Democratic -- The Obama Doctrine -- Yellowstone -- My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard -- Bird in a Cage and The Ideology of Isolation and Giantess -- Ladies in Waiting -- The Reckoning -- Listening for the Country -- Permissions -- Contributors

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With the work of reporters under fire worldwide, this year's anthology of National Magazine Award finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. The pieces included here explore the fault lines in American society. Shane Bauer's visceral "My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard" (Mother Jones) and Sarah Stillman's depiction of the havoc wreaked on young people's lives when they are put on sex-offender registries (The New Yorker) examine controversial criminal-justice practices. And responses to the shocks of the recent election include Matt Taibbi's irreverent dispatches from the campaign trail (Rolling Stone), George Saunders's transfixing account of Trump's rallies (The New Yorker), and Andrew Sullivan's fears for the future of democracy (New York). In other considerations of the political scene, Jeffrey Goldberg talks through Obama's foreign-policy legacy with the former president (The Atlantic), and Gabriel Sherman analyzes how Roger Ailes's fall sheds light on conservative media (New York). Linking personal stories to the course of history, Nikole Hannah-Jones looks for a school for her daughter in a rapidly changing, racially divided Brooklyn (New York Times Magazine), and Pamela Colloff explores how the 1966 University of Texas Tower mass shooting changed the course of one survivor's life (Texas Monthly). A selection of Rebecca Solnit's Harper's commentary ranges from a writer on death row to the isolation at the heart of conservatism. Becca Rothfeld ponders women waiting on love from the Odyssey to Tinder (Hedgehog Review). Siddhartha Mukherjee depicts the art and agony of oncology (New York Times Magazine). David Quammen ventures to Yellowstone to consider the future of wild places (National Geographic), and Mac McClelland follows a deranged expedition to Cuba in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker (Audubon). The collection concludes with Zandria Robinson's eloquent portrait of her father as reflected in the music he loved (Oxford American).

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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