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Featuring National Magazine Awards' winning and finalist pieces, this anthology includes stories that cover a variety of subjects from Elizabeth Kolbert's investigation into global warming in the "New Yorker" and James Bamford's look at the PR campaign behind the Iraq War in "Rolling Stone" to Chris Heath's profile of Merle Haggard in "GQ".
The best works of the year, cherry-picked and suitably delicious. Kirkus As always, this collection offers readers the opportunity to catch up on the best magazine writing they may have missed. Booklist If this anthology were a magazine, everybody would want to subscribe. Publishers Weekly You can finally ditch that magazine pile by the bed... The collection is diverse, brainy, and provocative. -- Rachel Leibrock The Sacramento Bee These articles manage to sing...In this volume the sum is as great as its parts. Educational Book Review The Best American Magazine Writing 2006 contains some stunning essays, picturesque profiles, and one heartbreaking account of personal illness. -- Ben Eltham Media International Australia
Graydon Carter is an author and the editor in chief of Vanity Fair.The American Society of Magazine Editors is a nonprofit professional organization for editors of magazines that are edited, published, and sold in the United States. It sponsors the National Magazine Awards in association with the Columbia School of Journalism.