TY  - BOOK
TI  - The best American magazine writing, 2007
SN  - 9780231143912
AV  - PS 659 .B464 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - American prose literature
KW  - United States
KW  - Journalism
N1  - Karl Lagerfeld, boy prince of fashion / Vanessa Grigoriadis -- Rules of engagement / William Langewiesche -- Our oceans are turning into plastic-- are we? / Susan Casey -- The school / C.J. Chivers -- He knew he was right / Ian Parker -- Murdering the impossible / Caroline Alexander -- The other side of hate / Andrew Corsello -- Blinded by science: when first we clicked / Bruno Maddox -- Prairie fire / Eric Konigsberg -- Russell and Mary / Michael Donohue -- Inside Scientology / Janet Reitman -- The loved ones / Tom Junod -- Living with geese / Paul Theroux -- Rhymes with rich / Sandra Tsing Loh -- The Vietnam syndrome / Christopher Hitchens -- The tracks of my tears / Stuart Klawans -- The storm of style / Alex Ross -- The strange career of Doctor Raju Gopalarajan / Rajesh Parameswaran
N2  -  and Andrew Corsello's harrowing portrait in GQ of Robert Mugabe's mad rule and two men-a white farmer and a fiery black priest-who strive for forgiveness instead of hate.   The collection also includes Vanessa Grigoriadis's hilarious portrait of fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld in New York Magazine;  and the work of nine other exceptional writers;  C. J. Chivers's chilling account in Esquire of the 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, which killed 331 people, 186 of them children;  Christopher Hitchens's profile of survivors of Agent Orange in Vanity Fair;  Janet Reitman's unraveling of the mysteries of Scientology in Rolling Stone;  Paul Theroux's thoughts on the dangers of anthropomorphism and our misconceptions about birds in the Smithsonian;  Sandra Tsing Loh's coverage of the stay-at-home-mommy debate in the Atlantic Monthly;  Susan Casey's revelation in Best Life of a virtually unknown, Texas-sized garbage dump resting at the bottom of the Pacific ocean; This year's selection includes William Langewiesche's probing investigation in Vanity Fair of the slaughter of twenty-four Iraqis in Haditha
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