National Magazine Awards

Tonight in NYC.

Live tweeting here: http://twitter.com/#!/@foliomag

Hastag: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23ellies

The James Beard Awards (for restaurants/chefs) are also in New York tonight. My twitter feed is an odd mix.

Has anyone heard from Jones? Could be a tough night for him.

 

@MySecondEmpire Oh, are the National Magazine Awards tonight, too? Jeez, I had no idea. Sure glad I can drink alone at home instead! #eeyoreface

 

That's actually why I threw in that line.

Jones has a good sense of humor.

 

I am really glad that Atul Gawande won the public service category for "Letting Go." It was the most important magazine story, I feel, that I read this past year. A tweet about "death panels" gets read by probably 1,000 times as many people as will read a 5,000-word piece in The New Yorker, but if you care about nuance and multiple sides to an issue, then you owe it to yourself to read that piece.

 

Gawande and "important" magazine stories are almost redundant.

When I see his byline show up in my weekly New Yorker I will always read.

 

I haven't read it yet, but with that kind of recommendation, I will.

Here it is for anyone else who wants to read it:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

 

Boom, have you read "Complications" or "The Checklist Manifesto"? The latter arose from a New Yorker article (and you can even see seeds of it in "Complications").

What is great about him is how non-partisan his arguments are. I feel like I am getting it straight when I read his thoughts on health care.

 

Have not read Complications or Check List but both in my pile of must reads.

Check List is really intriguing. I'm more of a fly by seat of pants type that always wants to move to list driven style.

What Gawande seems to accomplish in a day certainly makes a good argument for check list.

 

That was a fantastic read. Thanks for pointing it out, Dick. I really need to get a subscription to New Yorker.

 

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