Product Description: More and more readers turn to The Best American Magazine Writing for their annual fix of the year's most captivating essays, columns, reporting, and criticism. Chosen from the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Magazine Awards, this year's selections include the haunting story by Chris Jones (Esquire) of an American soldier's final journey home; James Wood's brilliant critique of the award-winning novelist Marianne Robinson (The New Yorker); a compelling column by Naomi Klein (The Nation) on the return of class consciousness in America; two biting reviews of recent books on feminism by Sandra Tsing Loh (The Atlantic); and a moving and insightful account by David Lipsky (Rolling Stone) of David Foster Wallace in his final days...read more

Product Description: The Best American Magazine Writing 2008 is an essential guide to the year's most entertaining, politically charged, and sophisticated essays. With pieces first published in The Nation, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker, among other leading publications, this anthology illuminates the most compelling issues of the past year and points to the topics that will concern us in the next...read more

'Famous as the editor of her mother's Little House books, Rose Wilder Lane worked for fifty years as a literary journalist, traveling widely and commenting on a broad range of topics. Amy Mattson Lauters has collected examples of Lane's literary nonfiction articles that have been unavailable since their original publication'--Provided by publisher.

Showcases articles written by a variety of journalists judged as finalists or winners in a contest sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and addresses topics ranging from reporting to feature writing.

Product Description: In 1999, Michigan State University Press launched Fourth Genre: Explorations in Creative Nonfiction, a journal that began with and has maintained a devotion to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction. The title reflects an intent to give nonfiction its due as a literary genre—to give writers of the 'fourth genre' a showcase for their work and to give readers a place to find the liveliest and most creative works in the form...read more

Showcases articles written by a variety of journalists judged as finalists or winners in a contest sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and addresses topics ranging from reporting to feature writing.

A collection of great journalistic pieces includes Maike Sager's account of stalking Marlon Brando in Tahiti, Scott Anderson's exploits as a war correspondant, and Bill Plaschke's story about a woman suffering from cerebral palsy who runs a Los Angeles Dodgers Web site. Original.

A compendium of underground literature includes selections from Hunter S. Thompson, Exene Cervenka, Patti Smith, Dennis Cooper, Malcolm X, Sonny Barger, Maggie Estep, Lenny Bruce, Henry Miller, R. Crumb, Philip K. Dick, Iceberg Slim, and Norman Mailer, among others. Original.

A tenth anniversary collection of twenty-five narrative essays originally published in the journal, Creative Nonfiction, includes Lauren Slater's discussion of her work as a therapist at an institution where she was once a patient, John Edgar Wideman's passionate reaction to the murder of Emmett Till, and John McPhee's personal album quilt. 15,000 first printing.

A selection of essays from Tin House magazine explores a range diverse subjects, in works by Jeffrey Eugenides on living above a Nazi bunker in Berlin, Jo Ann Beard's account of the life and death of one of Jack Kevorkian's patients, and others by Russell Banks and Czeslaw Milosz. Original. 15,000 first printing.

Chosen from more than one thousand submissions, a compilation of outstanding magazine pieces is drawn from the winners of and finalists for the National Magazine Awards and features significant magazine journalism and fictional works created for American magazines, including works by Adam Gopnik, James Wolcott, Christopher Hitchens, and Elizabeth Gilbert. Original. 27,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

A compilation of outstanding magazine pieces is drawn from the winners of and finalists for the National Magazine Awards and features significant magazine journalism and fictional works created for American magazines. Original. 25,000 first printing.

A compilation of outstanding magazine pieces is drawn from the winners of and finalists for the National Magazine Awards and features significant magazine journalism and fictional works created for American magazines. Original.

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Product Description: 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 to the best of the American magazines. The Awards are the magazine equivalents to the Pulitzer Prizes of the newspaper industry...read more

The singer-songwriter collects prose writing from her contemporaries, including David Byrne, Marc Cohn, Paula Cole, Lyle Lovett, John Stewart, Suzanne Vega, Lucinda Williams, Loudon Wainwright, and of course, her father. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: "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 to the best of the American magazine" (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)