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The Best American Magazine Writing 2011 contains award-winning features, exposes, and profiles along with extraordinary commentary, fiction, and poetry from America's leading magazines. This year's selections include stories that not only covered the news but also made news, including Michael Hastings's "The Runaway General," which forced the resignation of General Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, days after being published in Rolling Stone. Readers will also find Jane Mayer's "Covert Operations" (The New Yorker), which exposed the Koch brothers' campaign against the Barack Obama presidency, turning the duo into a powerful symbol of modern, corporatized politics. The anthology contains Scott Horton's investigation into inmate suicides at Guantanamo Bay prison (Harper's Magazine); Christopher Hitchens's wryly moving take on the politics of cancer (Vanity Fair); Jonathan Van Meter's eye-opening portrait of Joan Rivers and her transgressive comedic genius (New York Magazine); and Jonah Weiner's extraordinary musical biography of Kanye West, assembled from the artist's tweets and blog posts (Slate).
John Donvan and Caren Zucker describe the world's first autism case in The Atlantic; Atul Gawande shares the modern medical profession's poignant struggle with death and dying in The New Yorker; and Paul Theroux spins a thrilling tale in the Virginia Quarterly Review of a mad collector who acquires works of art only to destroy them. Read together or one at a time, these pieces exemplify the wholly immersive experience of well-crafted magazine writing.
Contents
Introduction, by Jim Nelson, editor in chief, GQ Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors The Man the White House Wakes Up To, by Mark Leibovich The Runaway General, by Michael Hastings Covert Operations, by Jane Mayer The Guantanamo "Suicides", by Scott Horton Letting Go, by Atul Gawande I Want My Prostate Back, by Laurence Roy Stains My Bra's Too Tight and It's Never Too Late, by Paige Williams Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny, by Jonathan Van Meter Kanye West Has a Goblet, by Jonah Weiner What's Your Favorite War? and Why Is Clint Eastwood Still the Man? and Why Can't Kanye West Shut the Hell Up?, by Stephen Marche A Boulevard Called Chagrin, by Joe Posnanski Murder in Dubai and Peretz Agonistes, by Marc Tracy Topic of Cancer and Unanswerable Prayers and Miss Manners and the Big C, by Christopher Hitchens Mister Lytle: An Essay, by John Jeremiah Sullivan The Physics of Speed, by William Giraldi Autism's First Child, by John Donvan and Caren Zucker The Suicide Catcher, by Michael Paterniti Innocence Lost and Innocence Found, by Pamela Colloff Minor Watt, by Paul Theroux Lines from the Reports of the Investigative Committees, by Joel Brouwer The End, by Ben Ehrenreich For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question, by Mac McClelland From The Shrine Down the Hall, by Dexter Filkins Water Is Life, by Barbara Kingsolver National Magazine Awards 2011 Finalists and Winners National Magazine Awards for Digital Media 2011 Finalists and Winners National Magazine Awards 2011 Judges ASME Board of Directors, 2010-11 Permissions List of Contributors
