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Book SynopsisChosen from the 2012 National Magazine Awards finalists and winners, this anthology is filled with compelling features and profiles, eye-opening reporting, and incisive criticism and analysis of contemporary culture and society. Written by today's leading journalists, the selections cover a range of developments in politics, international affairs, culture, and business-from the increasingly short shelf lives of celebrity marriages to the ongoing fallout from Wall Street's financial malpractice, from the insidious effects of the lingering wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the resurgent battle over issues pertaining to women's safety and health. Always engaging and informative, Best American Magazine Writing 2012 is an incomparable resource for the most noteworthy journalism and literary achievements of the year. Essays include Lawrence Wright (The New Yorker) on the history of Scientology and recent challenges to its mission and methods; Matthieu Aikins (The Atlantic) on the shady deali
Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Terry McDonell, editor, Time Inc. Sports Group Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors Joplin!, by Luke Dittrich The Apostate, by Lawrence Wright Excerpts from The Encyclopedia of 9/11, by New York Magazine Wall Street Isn't Winning--It's Cheating and Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette Moment and How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS Protests, by Matt Taibbi Too Much Information, by John Jeremiah Sullivan Our Man in Kandahar, by Matthieu Aikins Arms and the Dudes, by Guy Lawson The Invisible Army, by Sarah Stillman The Secret That Kills Four Women a Day, by Liz Brody The Signature Wound, by Bob Drury Fractured, by Susan Ince Dewayne Dedmon's Leap of Faith, by Chris Ballard Paper Tigers, by Wesley Yang Game of Her Life, by Tim Crothers He Is Anonymous, by Tim Rogers Looking for a Model and The Right to Write and Content Management, by William Zinsser Duck Tape and America's Next Top Weiner and The End of Kardaschadenfreude, by Joel Stein The Hox River Window, by Karen Russell When the King Saved God and From Abbottabad to Worse and Unspoken Truths, by Christopher Hitchens National Magazine Awards 2012 Finalists and Winners National Magazine Awards for Digital Media 2012 Finalists and Winners National Magazine Awards 2012 Judges ASME Board of Directors, 2011-12 Permissions List of Contributors
