Best American Magazine Writing 2008

Name: Best American Magazine Writing 2008
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ISBN: 9780231147149

ISBN-10: 0231147147

ISBN-13: 9780231147149

Edition: 2008

Authors: The American Society of Magazine Editors, Jacob Weisberg, The American Society of Magazine Editors

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The Best American Magazine Writing 2008is an essential guide to the year's most entertaining, politically charged, and sophisticated essays and fiction, offering a rare opportunity to experience in a single volume the top work of veteran reporters, critically acclaimed writers, and up-and-coming journalists. Only in this annual anthology will you find the best of the finalists for the 2008 National Magazine Awards, which include a critique of the Bush administration, a takedown of snark culture, personal reflections on child abuse accompanied by a profile of Hollywood's biggest villain, and an expos of America's backbreaking coal mines, along with Alice Munro's ( Harper's Magazine) and…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.80" long x 0.14" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Jacob Weisberg is chief political correspondent for Slate magazine and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City.



Preface



The Stuff of Books



The Editor's Texts



The Scholar's Dream



The Physician's Lament



The King's Canons



The Cost of a Priceless Book Epilogue: The Boy Who Wrote S& umacr;tras on the Sky



Bnton Rinchendrup's Letter to Editors



The Contents of the Buddhist Canons



The Cost of the Canon at DegT


Notes


References


Index