Author: Heinz-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 9783643912589
Category:
Page: 216
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This volume contains many aspects of sports journalism in daily newspapers, bundled in these main chapters: Professional Sports - Boxing Fights, Yacht Races, Horse Racing, Car Racing, Football, Baseball etc. College Sports - Sports Agents, lce Hockey, Football Coaches, Basketball Cheatings, etc. Sports Celebrities - Famous Jockey, Boxing Champion, Baseball ldol, Outstanding Golfer, etc. Sports Television - Munich Olympics, Los Angeles Olympics, Barcelona Olympics, Sochi Winter Olympics, etc. Sports Photos - Football Player, Baseball Hero, Barcelona Olympics, Boston Marathon Bombings etc. Sports Cartoons - Criticism about several Olympic Summer and Winter Games.
Author: Sid Holt
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231159401
Category: Language Arts & Disciplines
Page: 602
View: 743
Showcases articles written by a variety of journalists judged as finalists or winners in a contest sponsored by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and addresses topics ranging from reporting to feature writing.
Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547678467
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 387
View: 144
The New York Times–bestselling author of Packing for Mars presents fascinating essays by Jonathan Lethem, Jaron Lanier, Malcom Gladwell and others. Good science writing, as Mary Roach explains in her introduction, is a cure for ignorance and fallacy. But great science writing adds honey—in the form of engaging characters, stories, and wit—to make the medicine go down. This anthology reveals the essential humanity in our endless quest for knowledge and understanding. From a study of avian mating habits with unintended political implications to a sober exploration of the panic surrounding artificial intelligence, The Best Science and Nature Writing 2011 offers food for thought in a variety of flavors. The Best Science and Nature Writing 2011 includes entries by Deborah Blum, Burkhard Bilger, Ian Frazier, David H. Freedman, Atul Gawande, Stephen Hawking, Christopher Ketcham, Jill Sisson Quinn, Oliver Sachs, and others.
Author: Best American Series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547913971
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 197
View: 380
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. This special edition contains selections from the following editions: The Best American Short Stories edited by Geraldine Brooks The Best American Essays edited by Edwidge Danticat The Best American Mystery Stories edited by Harlan Coben The Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Mary Roach Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. The special guest editor then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected – and most popular – of its kind.
Author: The Best American Series
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547862279
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 160
View: 741
A collection of eleven fiction and nonfiction selections from the 2011 editions of the Best American Series, highlighting 2011’s best American writing. The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. The guest editor then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind. This special ebook contains eleven selections from the 2011 editions. From The Best American Short Stories edited by Geraldine Brooks: “Housewifely Arts” by Megan Mayhew Bergman “Phantoms” by Steven Millhauser From The Best American Essays edited by Edwidge Danticat: “Chapels” by Pico Iyer “There Are Things Awry Here” by Lia Purpura From The Best American Mystery Stories edited by Harlan Coben: “A Crime of Opportunity” by Ernest J. Finney From The Best American Science and Nature Writing edited by Mary Roach: “The Killer in the Pool” by Tim Zimmermann “The Whole Fracking Enchilada” by Sandra Steingraber From The Best American Sports Writing edited by Jane Leavy: “The Surfing Savant” by Paul Solotaroff “New Mike, Old Christine” by Nancy Hass From The Best American Travel Writing edited by Sloane Crosley: “My Year at Sea” by Christopher Buckley “Miami Party Boom” by Emily Witt
Author: Geraldine Brooks
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780547719290
Category: Literary Collections
Page: 386
View: 258
Twenty of the best American short stories of 2011, chosen by the New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Chord. The twenty tightly crafted stories collected here by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Geraldine Brooks are full of deftly drawn characters, universal truths, and often surprising humor. Richard Powers’s “To the Measures Fall” is a comic meditation on the uses of literature in the course of a life. In the satirical “The Sleep,” Caitlin Horrocks puts her fictional prairie town to bed—the inhabitants hibernate through the long winter as a form of escape—while in Steve Millhauser’s imagined town, the citizens are visited by ghostlike apparitions in “Phantoms.” Allegra Goodman’s spare but beautiful “La Vita Nuova” finds a jilted fiancée letting her art class paint all over her wedding dress as a poignant act of release. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wryly captures the social change in the air in Lagos, Nigeria, in “Ceiling,” her story of a wealthy young man who is not entirely at ease with what his life has become. As Brooks perused these richly imagined and varied landscapes, she found that it was like walking into the best kind of party, where you can hole up in a corner with old friends for a while, then launch out among interesting strangers. The Best American Short Stories 2011 also includes contributions from: Megan Mayhew Bergman · Tom Bissell • Jennifer Egan • Nathan Englander • Ehud Havazelet • Bret Anthony Johnston • Claire Keegan • Sam Lipsyte • Rebecca Makkai • Elizabeth McCracken • Ricardo Nuila • Joyce Carol Oates • Jess Row • George Saunders • Mark Slouka
Author: Christopher McDougall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780544147003
Category: Sports & Recreation
Page: 415
View: 605
An anthology of top-selected sports writing from the past year is culled from hundreds of national, regional, and specialty publications as well as a variety of leading sports blogs.