GQ Awards
The American Society of Magazine Editors just announced its 2008 National Magazine Award finalists, and we're proud to report that GQ received five nominations in these categories: General Excellence, Design, Photography, Reviews and Criticism, and Feature Writing. Tom Carson was nominated for his sharp-eyed critiques of Hollywood, and Jeanne Marie Laskas for her riveting look at life in Ohio's coal mines from GQ's May 2007 issue. The James Beard Foundation has also honored GQ's food-and-wine writing with three nominations—including one for the prestigious M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, for Alan Richman's "The Seven Temples of the Food World."
Read all of the nominated stories here:
Why do we even have coal mines? That question is what led Jeanne Marie Laskas to spend a few weeks 500 feet belowground, getting to know the men behind the invisible economy this country couldn't live without
Nominated by ASME for a National Magazine Award in the "Feature Writing" category
YOU ACTIN' LIKE ME? (FEBRUARY 2007)
Why is it that our best actors are so determined to punish us with their De Niro impersonations? As Oscar season comes to a head, Tom Carson isolates the virus that's left all our leading men so damned glum and asks: Would it kill these guys to show us a good time once in a while?
Nominated by ASME for a National Magazine Award in the "Reviews and Criticism" category
DON'T CRY FOR ME, IWO JIMA (SEPTEMBER 2007)
The new fourteen-hour Ken Burns documentary about America in World War II is sublime. It will sweep you off your feet and put you there—in Italy, on Omaha Beach, on the home front. But that's not enough for the master of history. He wants you sobbing on the couch. By Tom Carson
Nominated by ASME for a National Magazine Award in the "Reviews and Criticism" category
STRONG, SILENT, ULTRAVIOLENT (DECEMBER 2007)
Though Tommy Lee Jones has been acting nearly forty years, audiences are only now starting to recognize the depth of his talent. Has he changed, or have we? Either way, with that ravaged, mournful face—put to great use in the Coen Brothers' graphic instant classic No Country for Old Men—Jones is finally showing us what he's made of. By Tom Carson
Nominated by ASME for a National Magazine Award in the "Reviews and Criticism" category
THE WANDERING CHEF (JUNE 2007)
Every summer, Jim Denevan fires up his bus and travels the country, staging elaborate dinners on farms, in parks, and on beaches, from Alaska to New York City. His goal is to free us from the cult of celebrity chefs and the limits of the restaurant experience. Count us among the believers. By Howie Kahn
Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in the "Magazine Feature Writing About Restaurants and/or Chefs" category
YEAR OF THE PIG (DECEMBER 2007)
Three years ago, David Chang was an obscure cook with a failing Manhattan noodle bar. Now he is being hailed as the most innovative and exciting chef America has seen in decades. By Alan Richman
Nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award in the "Magazine Feature Writing Without Recipes" category
THE SEVEN TEMPLES OF THE FOOD WORLD (OCTOBER 2007)
Alan Richman crossed oceans, countries, and continents to eat at the seven greatest dining destinations on earth
Nominated for the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award
RSS FEEDS & PODCASTS
web sites: