"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 Guant?namo 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.
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