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The Best American Series(r) First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected and most popular of its kind. The Best American Sports Writing 2012 includes PAUL SOLOTAROFF JEANNE MARIE LASKAS WELLS TOWER WRIGHT THOMPSON S. L. PRICE DAVE SHEININ JON MOOALLEM and others [insert author photo] Michael Wilbon, editor, is one of the nation s most respected sports journalists and an industry pioneer: he is one of the first sportswriters to broaden his career beyond newspapers to include television, radio, and new media. A cohost of ESPN s Pardon the Interruption and a NBA studio analyst for ABC and ESPN, Wilbon left the Washington Post in December 2010 after thirty-one years to assume an expanded role as a columnist for ESPN.com and ESPNChicago.com. Look for the other best-selling titles in the Best American series: THE BEST AMERICAN COMICS THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING THE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES THE BEST AMERICAN TRAVEL WRITING "