© Columbia University Press
The Best American Magazine Writing 2008
December, 2008
Paper, 568 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14714-9
$16.95
/ £11.95
Contents
Introduction
Jacob Weisberg, editor-in-chief, Slate
Acknowledgments
Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief, Glamour and Immediate Past President of ASME
1. Everybody Sucks
Vanessa Grigoriadis
New York
Finalist—Feature Writing
2. China’s Instant Cities
Peter Hessler
National Geographic
Winner—Reporting
3. Present at the Creation
Matthew Scully
The Atlantic
Finalist—Profile Writing
4. The Black Sites
Jane Mayer
The New Yorker
Finalist—Reporting
5. Specialist Town Takes His Case to Washington
Joshua Kors
The Nation
Winner—Public Interest
6. City of Fear
William Langewiesche
Vanity Fair
Finalist—Reporting
7. “You Have Thousands of Angels Around You”
Paige Williams
Atlanta
Winner—Feature Writing
8. Obama’s Moment
Matt Taibbi
Rolling Stone
Winner—Columns and Commentary
9. Out in the Cold
Mike Kessler
5280: Denver’s Mile-High Magazine
Finalist—Public Interest
10. Brouhahaha
Hendrik Hertzberg
The New Yorker
Finalist—Columns and Commentary
11. Pat Dollard’s War on Hollywood
Evan Wright
Vanity Fair
Winner—Profile Writing
12. The Autumn of the Multitaskers
Walter Kirn
The Atlantic
Finalist—Essays
13. Betrayed
George Packer
The New Yorker
Finalist—Public Interest
14. Babes in the Woods
Caitlin Flanagan
The Atlantic
Winner—Reviews and Criticism
15. Underworld
Jeanne Marie Laskas
GQ
Finalist—Feature Writing
16. I Am Joe’s Prostate
Thomas E. Kennedy
New Letters
Winner—Essays
17. American Roulette
Kurt Andersen
New York
Finalist—Columns and Commentary
18. Casualties of War
Steve Oney
Los Angeles
Finalist—Profile Writing
19. So Many Men’s Rooms, So Little Time
Christopher Hitchens
Slate
Finalist—Columns and Commentary
20. Don’t Cry For Me, Iwo Jima
Tom Carson
GQ
Finalist—Reviews and Criticism
2008 National Magazine Award Finalists
Judges, 2008
National Magazine Award Winners, 1966–2008
ASME Board of Directors, 2007–2008
Permissions
List of Contributors