{"product_id":"9780231543651","title":"The Best American Magazine Writing 2017","description":"With the work of journalists under fire around the world, this year’s anthology of National Magazine Awards finalists and winners is a timely reminder of the power of journalism. These pieces from writers driven to explore America’s fault lines include Shane Bauer’s harrowing “My Four Months as a Private Prison Guard” (\u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e), a visceral portrait of the abuses of the carceral system, and Sarah Stillman’s account of the havoc wreaked on young people’s lives when they are put on sex-offender registries (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). In two different considerations of parenting, Nikole Hannah-Jones looks for a school for her daughter in a rapidly changing, racially divided Brooklyn (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) and Michael Chabon takes his thirteen-year-old son to Fashion Week in Paris (\u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e). Pamela Colloff explores how the 1966 University  of Texas Tower mass shooting changed the course of one survivor’s life (\u003ci\u003eTexas Monthly\u003c\/i\u003e), and Siddhartha Mukherjee depicts the art and agony of oncology (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine).\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOther selections take up the shocks of the election, including Matt Taibbi’s irreverent dispatches from the campaign trail (\u003ci\u003eRolling Stone) \u003c\/i\u003eand George Saunders’s transfixing account of Trump’s rallies (\u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e). Jeffrey Goldberg talks through Obama’s foreign-policy legacy with the president (\u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic),\u003c\/i\u003e Andrew Sullivan fears for the future of democracy (\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e), and Gabriel Sherman relates how the women of Fox News brought to light Roger Ailes’s predations (\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e). Joining them are Rebecca Solnit’s wide-ranging \u003ci\u003eHarper’s\u003c\/i\u003e commentary, Becca Rothfeld’s pondering women waiting from \u003ci\u003eThe Odyssey\u003c\/i\u003e to Tinder (\u003ci\u003eHedgehog Review\u003c\/i\u003e), and bold expeditions into nature: David Quammen ventures to Yellowstone to consider the future of wild places (\u003ci\u003eNational Geographic\u003c\/i\u003e), and Mac McClelland sets off for Cuba in search of the ivory-billed woodpecker (\u003ci\u003eAudubon\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124635156720,"sku":"9780231543651","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780231543651_p0.jpg?v=1763679363","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780231543651","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}