National Magazine Award

And for this, she has been rewarded with extravagant public speaking fees, a cushy sinecure at the New York Times.

a Pulitzer Prize in commentary, two George Polk Awards, three National Magazine Awards, a MacArthur Fellowship, and at least 10 years of the sort of detached, flighty, consequence-free existence that allows one to sacrifice the mind of one's own child for a couple of mawkish newspaper pieces and the cheap mollification of one's ego.

If you don't see Charles C.W. Cook as a national treasure, I don't know what to tell you.

I get it.

He's a notable public speaker and frequent guest on radio and TV.

Kevin is also a regular contributor, blogger, and columnist for Explorer Magazine and Paddling Magazine and has won several national magazine awards.

He was made patron paddler for Paddle Canada and has recently won several filmmaking awards.

Kevin was listed one of the top 100 modern-day explorers by the Canadian Geographical Society.

Whether you conquer the hill or not is, is not up to you, I think the Stoics would say, but whether you're on it or not is.

Seth has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award.

He's been anthologized in some of the best magazine sports writing in this country.

His book, It's Better to Be Feared, was the nonfiction book of the year by Sports Illustrated, and you can follow him on Instagram and on Twitter, @seth.wickersham, and you can pick up copies of Be On That Hill, It's Better to Be Feared and Loved, and American Kings at The Painted Porch, which we have carried since before I first had him on the show, because I am a big fan.

And I felt more opportunity in New York.

I was a judge at the National Magazine Awards for 17 years at Columbia University.

And there were a lot of things to do in New York.

And I got a job as the art director of Ski Magazine.

But for newsstand sales, which was a very important part of their business, they had to put something sexy on the cover.

And much later, like in the 2000s, I was reading a story that ended up winning them the National Magazine Award.

And it was about a General Stanley McChrystal in Afghanistan.

No need to get into the story, but it was a very important story.

It won them a National Magazine Award.

Guess who was on the cover? It was Lady Gaga in a G-string and a black brassiere with little machine guns coming out of her brassiere.

That shows you, you know, that there was always these two things, as you're saying, you know, you had to get on the cover, but that cover had to pop.

And his new book, co-authored with his wife, Susan Goldmark, is American Scoundrel, Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump.

Then finally we'll speak with Eric Schlosser, who has written for The Atlantic since 1994, and he has received a National Magazine Award and a Sidney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting.

His book about nuclear weapons command and control was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, and his best-selling book Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, is available for pre-order and out later this month in an updated 25th anniversary edition.

He also has an article at the New York Times, Why Did Trump Order Up to 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? And another at the Atlantic, Should We Be Afraid of Our Food? And we will look into how farmers are getting screwed while corporate food is killing us.

Welcome back.

I'm Ian Masters, and this is Background Briefing, available 24-7 at backgroundbriefing.org. And joining us now is Eric Schlosser, who has written for The Atlantic since 1994.

His work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, and he received the National Magazine Award and the Sydney Hillman Foundation Award for reporting.

His book about nuclear weapons command and control was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history, and his best-selling book, Fast Food Nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, is available for pre-order and out later this month in an updated 25th anniversary edition.

I still think that that's, that element is there because I've seen it happen when I, like I said, when Texas Monthly did the feature editorial on, on my American Avenue project where I was photographing homeless families with small children in Dallas, um, and, uh, they did 10 image porfo- they did a 10 image, uh, feature editorial.

It won a National Magazine Award.

Uh, that shelter that I photographed raised a million and a half dollars in unsolicited donations, which allowed, this was right before COVID, uh, or right when COVID hit, so it allowed that shelter to rent out an entire hotel for six months and separate the families that they had in their shelter so they weren't all stuck together when COVID was, you know, at its peak, which helped out a ton of families.

Is that my credit? No.

While the rise of Islamophobia in this country may be unprecedented, the hate is far from new.

In fact, the latest book from Rozina Ali, New York Times contributing writer and winner of the National Magazine Award for Reporting, discusses just that.

The book is called Seasons of Fury, Four Families and the Rise of Islamophobia in America.

It tells the story of America's longstanding relationship with Islamophobia going all the way back to the late 1940s.