In what’s becoming a yearly tradition, and roughly as safe a bet as UNC making the NCAA Tournament, Wired picked up it’s fifth straight nod as a finalist for the National Magazine Award for General Excellence.” A win would make it three out of the last four. One of the three issues the magazine submitted is the October one with the cellulosic ethanol story on the cover, giving me a sliver of a role in the nomination. That issue and its stupendous cover art also make an appearance in the Design category, a well-deserved nod for creative director Scott Dadich and the rest of the art folk. The magazine picked up a third nomination in the Magazine Section category.
The real fun of the NMA announcement each year, however, is looking up the nominated stories — in the Feature Writing, Essay, and Reporting categories — that I somehow missed. Last year’s Essay winner, “Russell and Mary” by Michael Donohue in the Georgia Review, was stunning.
If any piece was a sure-bet finalist this year, I’d have put money on John Anderson’s New Yorker story about poppy eradication in Afghanistan.
UPDATE: The Huffington Post tracked down links to all the nominated stories.
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