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_aPS 659 _b.B464 2007 |
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_aThe best American magazine writing, 2007 / _ccompiled by the American Society of Magazine Editors. |
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_aNew York : _bColumbia University Press, _cc2007. |
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_axiii, 502 p. _c21 cm. |
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| 505 | _aKarl 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. | ||
| 520 | _a 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 | ||
| 520 | _a and the work of nine other exceptional writers. | ||
| 520 | _a C. J. Chivers's chilling account in Esquire of the 2004 hostage crisis in Beslan, which killed 331 people, 186 of them children | ||
| 520 | _a Christopher Hitchens's profile of survivors of Agent Orange in Vanity Fair | ||
| 520 | _a Janet Reitman's unraveling of the mysteries of Scientology in Rolling Stone | ||
| 520 | _a Paul Theroux's thoughts on the dangers of anthropomorphism and our misconceptions about birds in the Smithsonian | ||
| 520 | _a Sandra Tsing Loh's coverage of the stay-at-home-mommy debate in the Atlantic Monthly | ||
| 520 | _a Susan Casey's revelation in Best Life of a virtually unknown, Texas-sized garbage dump resting at the bottom of the Pacific ocean | ||
| 520 | _aThis 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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_aAmerican prose literature _zUnited States. _9109987 |
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_aJournalism _934591 |
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