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Book SynopsisThis year’s Best American Magazine Writing features outstanding writing on contentious issues including incarceration, policing, sexual assault, labor, technology, and environmental catastrophe.
Trade ReviewA real gift for readers... If you can't read 'em all--and you can't--read this instead. Sacramento News & Review
Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Roger Hodge, national editor, The Intercept Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors Fixing the System: An Interview with President Obama on Prison Reform, by Shane Smith, Vice, Finalist-Single-Topic Issue What Is Code? If You Don't Know, You Need to Read This, by Paul Ford, Bloomberg Businessweek, Winner-Single-Topic Issue The New American Slavery and "All You Americans Are Fired", by Jessica Garrison, Ken Bensinger, and Jeremy Singer-Vine, BuzzFeed News, Winner-Public Interest "Pregnant? Scared? Need Options? Too Bad", by Meaghan Winter, Cosmopolitan, Finalist-Public Interest "My Nurses Are Dead, and I Don't Know If I'm Already Infected", by Joshua Hammer, Matter, Winner-Reporting Purgatory, by Luke Mogelson, New York Times Magazine, Finalist-Reporting The Really Big One, by Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, Winner-Feature Writing An Unbelievable Story of Rape, by Ken Armstrong and T. Christian Miller, The Marshall Project and ProPublica, Finalist-Feature Writing A Visit to the Sweat Lodge and Santa Muerte, Full of Grace and Stop Sending me Jonathan Franzen Novels, by Barrett Brown, The Intercept, Winner-Columns and Commentary Down for the Count and The King Has Spoken and The Power of Sight, by Howard Bryant, ESPN the Magazine, Finalist-Columns and Commentary The Friend, by Matthew Teague, Esquire, Winner-Essays and Criticism How It Feels, by Jenny Zhang, Poetry, Finalist-Essays and Criticism Permissions List of Contributors
