Read the Best from American Magazines

When I reviewed The Best American Magazine Writing 2006 a few months back, two of my favorite articles were a lengthy David Foster Wallace essay on Los Angeles talk radio host John Ziegler, and John Jeremiah Sullivan's firsthand account of his trip to a Christian rock festival. As it happens, those are the first two pieces that Columbia University Press has chosen to excerpt on the anthology's web page at the Columbia UP site, and if you haven't read them yet, I encourage you to give them a look. If they're taking votes on what to put up next, I nominate the GQ profile of Merle Haggard by Chris Heath!