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David Brooks: The Sidney Awards. December 26, 2007 7:11 PM by Tom Whipple. Every year, The Sidney Awards go to the authors of the best magazine essays, and every year the psychic costs grow worse. The Sidneys have become so prestigious and so life-altering that the winners know that everything they produce hereafter will be anti-climactic. Some crack up — F. Scott Fitzgerald style — others.
Every December I read hundreds of long-form essays to select the Sidney Awards, and every year I regret that I spend so much of the other 11 months reading online trivia. Then, every January, I.
It is time once again for the Sidney Awards, when I pick out some of the best long-form essays that you might download for your holiday reading pleasure. This year.
David Brooks: Sidney Awards recognize some of the year’s best reading.
David Brooks became a New York Times Op-Ed columnist in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard, a contributing editor at Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly, and is.
The Sidney Awards, Part II By DAVID BROOKS Book tours are lonely, yet after spending four months promoting his novel “Freedom,” Jonathan Franzen went to an island 500 miles off the coast of Chile to be alone. He got at least one thing out of it, a profound essay in The New Yorker called “Farther Away,” the winner of another of this year’s Sidney Awards. Franzen’s theme is solitude.
The essay is part of the second batch of this year’s Sidney Awards, which I give for outstanding long-form journalism. From The New Yorker, I recommend Dexter Filkins’ “A Saudi Prince’s.