{"id":103,"date":"2003-05-10T05:48:33","date_gmt":"2003-05-10T13:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2003\/05\/10\/katha-pollitt-wins-national-magazine-award\/"},"modified":"2003-05-10T05:48:33","modified_gmt":"2003-05-10T13:48:33","slug":"katha-pollitt-wins-national-magazine-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"Katha Pollitt wins National Magazine Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Katha Pollitt, possibly my favorite feminist writer, has won this year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asme.magazine.org\/national_magazine_awards\/2003_winners.html\">National Magazine Award<\/a> for best columns and commentary. &#8220;This category recognizes excellence in short-form political, social, economic or humorous commentary. The award honors the eloquence, force of argument and succinctness with which the writer presents his or her views.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The columns Pollitt (or, strictly speaking, <em>The Nation<\/em>&#8216;s editor) won for were two attacks on religious (not just Islamic) fundamentalism (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20021223&#038;s=pollitt\">&#8220;As Ms World Turns&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20020401&#038;s=pollitt\">&#8220;God Changes Everything&#8221;<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc.mhtml?i=20020513&#038;s=pollitt\">&#8220;Backlash Babies&#8221;<\/a>, a critique of Sylvia Ann Hewlett&#8217;s SCLM-favored but poor-selling book <em>Creating a Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The honoring of &#8220;Backlash Babies&#8221; feels a bit arbitrary; it&#8217;s an excellent piece but no better than dozens of others Pollitt wrote in 2003. But &#8220;As Ms World Turns&#8221; and &#8220;God Changes Everything&#8221; are stand-out columns, exceptional for their angry eloquence and their scope.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msmagazine.com\/blog\/recommended.asp?id=259\">MsMusings<\/a> for the links.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?p=maxalt-price-safeway\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katha Pollitt, possibly my favorite feminist writer, has won this year&#8217;s National Magazine Award for best columns and commentary. &#8220;This category recognizes excellence in short-form political, social, economic or humorous commentary. The award honors the eloquence, force of argument and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-and-admin-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}