New Yorker Book Bench Blog Nominated for National Magazine Award for Blogging

By Jason Boog 

asmelogo.pngThe New Yorker‘s Book Bench has been nominated for a National Magazine Award for Digital Media, a prestigious award from the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME).

They were nominated for a Blogging award that “Recognizes excellence in online reporting, commentary and criticism in the form of a blog”–competing against The Atlantic, The Economist, Foreign Policy, and Mother Jones.

Via ASME, here are the posts that secured the literary blog a nomination.

Protagonists of punishment
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Ask an Academic: Orange Juice
Remembering Updike
Eating our World
Graphic Language
The Exchange
What Are You Reading, Cynthia Zarin?
Book Club Confidential
Covers Contest