{"product_id":"9780231543644","title":"The Best American Magazine Writing 2016","description":"This year’s \u003ci\u003eBest American Magazine Writing\u003c\/i\u003e features outstanding writing on contentious issues including incarceration, policing, sexual assault, labor, technology, and environmental catastrophe. Selections include Paul Ford’s ambitious “What Is Code?” (\u003ci\u003eBloomberg Businessweek\u003c\/i\u003e), an innovative explanation of how programming works, and “The Really Big One,” by Kathryn Schulz (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e), which exposes just how unprepared the Pacific Northwest is for a major earthquake. Joining them are Meaghan Winter’s exposé of crisis pregnancy centers (\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e) and a chilling story of police prejudice that allowed a serial rapist to run free (the Marshall Project in partnership with \u003ci\u003eProPublica\u003c\/i\u003e). Also included is Shane Smith’s interview with Barack Obama about mass incarceration (\u003ci\u003eVice\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther selections demonstrate a range of long-form styles and topics across print and digital publications. The imprisoned hacker and activist Barrett Brown pens hilarious dispatches from behind bars, including a scathing review of Jonathan Franzen’s fiction (\u003ci\u003eThe Intercept\u003c\/i\u003e). “The New American Slavery” (\u003ci\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/i\u003e) documents the pervasive exploitation of guest workers, and Luke Mogelson explores the purgatorial fate of an undocumented man sent back to Honduras (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e). Joshua Hammer harrowingly portrays Sierra Leone’s worst Ebola ward as even the staff succumb to the disease (\u003ci\u003eMatter\u003c\/i\u003e). And in “The Friend,” Matthew Teague’s wife is afflicted with cancer, his friend moves in, and the result is a devastating narrative of relationships and death (\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e). The collection concludes with Jenny Zhang’s “How It Feels,” an unconventional meditation on the intersection of teenage cruelty and art (\u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124786184432,"sku":"9780231543644","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780231543644_p0.jpg?v=1763678730","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780231543644","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}