The Best American Writing Magazine 2011

Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors. Introduction by Jim Nelson

Introduction, by Jim Nelson, editor in chief, GQ
Acknowledgments, by Sid Holt, chief executive, American Society of Magazine Editors
The Man the White House Wakes Up To, by Mark Leibovich
The Runaway General, by Michael Hastings
Covert Operations, by Jane Mayer
The Guantánamo "Suicides", by Scott Horton
Letting Go, by Atul Gawande
I Want My Prostate Back, by Laurence Roy Stains
My Bra's Too Tight and It's Never Too Late, by Paige Williams
Joan Rivers Always Knew She Was Funny, by Jonathan Van Meter
Kanye West Has a Goblet, by Jonah Weiner
What's Your Favorite War? and Why Is Clint Eastwood Still the Man? and Why Can't Kanye West Shut the Hell Up?, by Stephen Marche
A Boulevard Called Chagrin, by Joe Posnanski
Murder in Dubai and Peretz Agonistes, by Marc Tracy
Topic of Cancer and Unanswerable Prayers and Miss Manners and the Big C, by Christopher Hitchens
Mister Lytle: An Essay, by John Jeremiah Sullivan
The Physics of Speed, by William Giraldi
Autism's First Child, by John Donvan and Caren Zucker
The Suicide Catcher, by Michael Paterniti
Innocence Lost and Innocence Found, by Pamela Colloff
Minor Watt, by Paul Theroux
Lines from the Reports of the Investigative Committees, by Joel Brouwer
The End, by Ben Ehrenreich
For Us Surrender Is Out of the Question, by Mac McClelland
From The Shrine Down the Hall, by Dexter Filkins
Water Is Life, by Barbara Kingsolver
National Magazine Awards 2011 Finalists and Winners
National Magazine Awards for Digital Media 2011 Finalists and Winners
National Magazine Awards 2011 Judges
ASME Board of Directors, 2010–11
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