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1 online resource (xxii, 501 pages) |
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The second biggest star in a remote little burg somewhere in Germany / Tom Junod -- Apple breaks the mold: an oral history / Max Chafkin -- The dream boat / Luke Mogelson -- Orders of grief / Lisa Miller -- Jahar's world / Janet Reitman -- Thanksgiving in Mongolia / Ariel Levy -- Shark week and Difficult women and Private practice / Emily Nussbaum -- Overexposed and Radical revivial and Behind the facade / Witold Rybczynski -- Sliver of sky / Barry Lopez -- Bitter pill: why medical bills are killing us / Steven Brill -- How long can you wait to have a baby? / Jean M. Twenge -- Michael Jordan has not left the building / Wright Thompson -- Bret, unbroken / Steve Friedman -- Dangerous / Joshua Davis -- The sinking of the Bounty / Matthew Shaer -- Nineteen: the Yarnell Hill fire / Kyle Dickman -- Elegies / Kathleen Ossip -- The embassy of Cambodia / Zadie Smith |
| Summary |
Our annual anthology of finalists and winners of the National Magazine Awards 2014 includes Jonathan Franzen's eloquent rumination in National Geographic on the damage we continue to inflict on the environment and its long-lasting consequences; William T. Vollman's blackly comic reflections in Harper's magazine on being the target of an extensive FBI investigation into whether he could be the Unabomber, an anthrax mailer, or a jihadi terrorist; and Ariel Levy's account of extreme travel and great escape to a remote land--while pregnant--in the New Yorker. Other essays include Wright Thompson's bittersweet profile of Michael Jordan's fifty-something second act (ESPN); Jean M. Twenge's revealing look at fertility myths and baby politics (The Atlantic); David Kamp's poignant portrait of a small town recovering from one of the nation's worst mass shootings (Vanity Fair); Janet Reitman's controversial study of the Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (Rolling Stone); Ted Conover's eye-opening account of working undercover in a commercial slaughterhouse (Harper's); and Wells Tower's wild tale of bonding with his father at a notorious art and music festival (GQ). The collection also features a short story by the critically acclaimed author Zadie Smith (The New Yorker) |
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In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American prose literature -- 21st century
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Journalism -- Awards -- United States.
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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American prose literature
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Journalism -- Awards
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Holt, Sid, compiler
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Jannot, Mark, writer of introduction
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American Society of Magazine Editors, compiler.
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| ISBN |
9780231539517 |
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0231539517 |
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