The Best American Magazine Writing 2000 (Best American Magazine Writing) - Softcover

Editors, The American Society Of Magazine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 158648009X ISBN 13: 9781586480097

Publisher: PublicAffairs, 2000

Synopsis

"In the world of magazines, no recognition is more highly coveted than an ""Ellie,"" the National Magazine Award presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors to the best of the American magazine"

About this title

About the Author:

Clay Felker, as an editor in the early 1960s, encouraged the talents of writers such as Norman Mailer, Tom Wolfe, and Gloria Steinem, and in the process played a central role in the emergence of what came to be known as the New Journalism. He was founding editor of New York Magazine (and thereby, of the modern city/regional magazine) and of New West; edited The Village Voice; influenced the creation or redirection of numerous magazines including U.S. News & World Report, Adweek, and Ms; was editor-in-chief and publisher of Esquire; and was editor-in-chief of Manhattan, Inc. and of M Magazine. He is currently director of the Felker Magazine Center at the University of California, Berkeley.

From Library Journal:

The first of a planned annual publication, this collection of 15 award-winning magazine pieces that appeared during 1999 is drawn from a field of 1,483 entries in the National Magazine Awards. The judges retained by the American Society of Magazine Editors, based at Columbia University, narrowed the field to 82 finalists in a variety of categories. Long-time magazine editor Felker, now a journalism professor at the University of California, Berkeley, played a major role in choosing the winners included here. Though the book is a welcome beginning, a long-standing annual collection from the American Society of Newspaper Editors (e.g., 1999 Best Newspaper Writing, Bonus Bks., 1999) does it much better. How? By including interviews with the winning writers as well as commentary from first-rate teachers of writing. There are other quibbles with this magazine collection: too many of the pieces are from large, easy-to-obtain magazines (e.g., Esquire, Sports Illustrated, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker); too many of the writersD13 of 15Dare men; and the mixing of three fiction with 12 nonfiction pieces gives the collection a strange aura. Quibbles aside, these provocative works ought to appeal to a diverse readership. Recommended for public and academic libraries.DSteve Weinberg, Univ. of Missouri Journalism Sch., Columbia
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About this edition

• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 158648009X
• ISBN 13: 9781586480097
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 432
• Editor: Felker Clay