New Yorker, New York Lead Ellie Nominations

New York’s Adam Moss [left] and the New Yorker’s David Remnick [right] flank Rolling Stone’s Jann Wenner at the 2006 National Magazine Awards

The finalists for the 42nd Annual National Magazine Awards — the industry’s so-called Ellies — were announced today, with the New Yorker leading the pack — what else is new? — with nine nominations. New York and Esquire garnered seven each.

But the question is who will be this year’s Virginia Quarterly Review, which had a coming out party of sorts when the nominees were announced last year (“Virginia what?” being the familiar refrain).

Potential Cinderellas this year: Cincinnati Magazine (profile writing), the Georgia Review (essays) and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (I’m sorry, what was that?) for “General Excellence, Circulation under 100,000.”

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