Best American Sports Writing 2011

SF_Express · Oct 10, 2011

BYH said:

There is nothing funnier anywhere than hondo's complete lack of reading comprehension.
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Yeah, not to scrap, but I can think of several right off the top of my head in my experience, but I'm not going to go into a list because it's a complete non-issue.

It helps; but if you provide a copy of a story, it will be considered, subscription or not. Pretty basic.

TheSportsPredictor · Oct 11, 2011

When does The Best American SportsJournalists.com Writing come out?

anotherbucket4monsieur · Oct 11, 2011

Glenn Stout said:

As I explain each year in the foreward, each year I send a letter to several hundred magazine and newspaper editors requesting submissions. The letters to the magazine editors request, but certainly don't demand, a complimentary subscription to facilitate this whole process. Editors are also encouraged to submit individual stories, and to ask their staffs to do the same as individuals. The number of complimentary subscriptions I receive each year generally varies from between forty or fifty and one hundred.

I never ask the newspaper sports editors to provide a complimentary subscription - that would be insane - and in many forewords have explained that the subscription request - and it is only a request - applies only to magazines. I think most people have understood that, since in twenty-one years only one newspaper misinterpreted and sent me a subscription. So to answer Hondo's question, every newspaper story that has appeared in BASW, from a weekly to a story from a Sunday supplement to a daily, has been from a paper that has not provided a subscription (and by the way, for the last eight years I have lived in a place with no home newspaper delivery, so I am unable to receive any paper on a daily basis anymore - for my own reading I am online dependent). Believe me, I read as much as I can, and sometimes look in places like this to see if people are discussing a particular story and then seek it out, but I have explained in many interviews and in the forewords that I cannot consider any story that I don't see, and the best way to make sure of that is to send it to me. I get thousands of story submissions from individuals each year, as well as submissions from hundreds of publications representing their writers.

I don't have any problems answering any questions about this process, which I think is as open as possible and is nearly identical for all the "Best American" series, and I have tried to address questions in interviews and in the forewords each year. The only thing I won't do is discuss the merits of individual stories that did not make the book, the discussions I may or may not have with the the GE about them, or that might not be appropiate. In the end the guest editor - not me - selects every story in the book. My job is to try to deliver a pool of intelligent suggestions, and then the guest editor has always been free either to select from those stories or select any number of stories on his or her own.
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There's a review of the book (http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/review/best-american-sports-writing-2011) which states that Glenn read about 10,000 articles and, from that collection, forwarded 71 stories to this year's editor, Jane Leavy, who pared it down to the 29 that made the book. Pretty stiff competition to say the least.

Double Down · Oct 11, 2011

TheSportsPredictor said:

When does The Best American SportsJournalists.com Writing come out?
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OMG, fingers crossed my Palin/SportsNight parody makes it!

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