TY - BOOK ED - American Society of Magazine Editors. TI - The best American magazine writing 2012 SN - 9780231162234 SN - 1541-0978 AV - PS659 .B43 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - American prose literature KW - 21st century KW - Periodicals KW - Journalism KW - Awards KW - United States N1 - Joplin! / Luke Dittrich -- The Apostate / Lawrence Wright -- Excerpts from The Encyclopedia of 9/11 -- Wall Street isn't winning-it's cheating and Mike Bloomberg's Marie Antoinette moment and How I stopped worrying and learned to love the OWS protests / Matt Taibbi -- Too much information / John Jeremiah Sullivan -- Our man in Kandahar / Matthieu Aikins -- Arms and the dudes / Guy Lawson -- The invisible army / Sarah Stillman -- The secret that kills four women a day / Liz Brody -- The signature wound / Bob Drury -- Fractured / Susan Ince -- Dewayne Dedmon's leap of faith / Chris Ballard -- Paper tigers / Wesley Yang -- Game of her life / Tim Crothers -- He is anonymous / Tim Rogers -- Looking for a Model and The right to write and Content management / William Zinsser -- Duck tape and America's next top Weiner and The end of Kardaschadenfreude / Joel Stein -- The Hox River window / Karen Russell -- When the king saved God and From Abbottabad to worse and Unspoken truths / Christopher Hitchens ER -