This is just me -- can't speak for the rest of Snakes on McCain we're all different people and I, unlike Andrew, have not had any strange dreams about mud wrestling with Hu Jintao. I'm sure that I missed some articles and I definitely have a bias with respect to what I like to read -- like any blogger. Also, I'm a twenty-something so I think I know everything.
I decided to do this in the shower yesterday morning so since then I've been scouring the internet in the hopes of stringing together enough keywords to direct me toward the articles I need but, alas, I'm sure that some have slipped by and will go uncelebrated. Feel free to sound off in the comments on any pieces you think I missed. These are purely articles I found on the web so anything that is exclusively in print is undetected to the all-knowing-eye that is this SOM list.
Ranking them would be too tough so this is an unranked top 10 with some honorable mentions toward the bottom. Sadly, I'm not clever enough to have a grading rubric devised. Some are narratives I wish we talked about more, others are literary and tugged at my heartstrings, then there are others that I just find illuminating and wanted to share (again).
Happy reading and thanks for a great year. I'll put the stats for Snakes on McCain in a post closer to New Year's Day so you guys can see just how great you all have been.
#ForTheBoys
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| Holla at the homies (some missing) |
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Kiese Laymon
Gawker, July 28
Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Atlantic, September 2012
Laura M. Colarusso
Washington Monthly, May/June 2012
Michel-Ange (Mickey) Desruisseaux
With Apologies to Bill Bennet, October 21
Dear President Schapiro: Why I Can't Recommend Northwestern University Anymore
Greg Wright
Wright and Left, October 22
David Maraniss
Vanity Fair, June 2012
Jason DeParle
New York Times, December 22
Bill Simmons
Grantland, June 8
Kiese Laymon
Gawker, August 25
William Brandon Lacy Campos
My Feet Only Walk Forward, November 5
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Michael Lewis
Vanity Fair, October 2012
Brian Phillips
Grantland, August 10
Mike Giglio
The Daily Beast, December 10
Anna Therese Day
The Daily Beast, October 23
Dashiell Bennett
The Atlantic Wire, September 6
Tufts Students for Justice in Palestine (re-published by Mondoweiss)
Mondoweiss, December 20
Samee Sulaiman, Sami Kishawi
The Chicago Maroon, December 4
Mia McKenzie
Black Girl Dangerous, July 16
Seth Freed Wessler
ColorLines, January 18
* BONUS:
Top 10 New Yorker Stories of 2012 - The Apostate; The Obama Memos; The Caging of America; The Story of a Suicide; Spoiled Rotten; We Are Alive (Bruce Springsteen); Big Med; Super-Rich Irony; One on One; The Choice
