Gold Medal
November 4, 2011Accolades are always welcome and this week I’ve learned an essay I wrote about the value of dissent for Ode Magazine has won the gold medal in the Best Single Article/Feature category at the annual Folio Magazine awards.
The Folio awards, which give Eddies for editorial content and Ozzies for graphic design, are the largest and most all-encompassing magazine awards in the United States. Big names participate and this year magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly, Utne Reader, and Playboy all won gold medals. However, to be absolutely honest, this remains the second-tier magazine award ceremony in the United States, as the National Magazine Awards curated by the American Society of Magazine Editors are by far the most prestigious. Personally, I liken it to the difference between winning the Champions League and the Europa League. Not that this diminishes my pleasure. As the players of Atlético Madrid can attest, all victories are to be savored.
Of course, I would be utterly remiss if I didn’t say that the only reason this gold medal came about was the brilliance of my editor James Geary. It is he, with his ever-curious mind, who assigns my subjects and gives me incredible leeway in my handling of them. James is also among the world’s leading authorities on both aphorisms and metaphors, so give his website a visit or, even better, buy his astoundingly interesting book I is the Other.
Needless to say, if you haven’t yet read the article, please do. You can find it *here*.
And now, I sit back and await gilded trinkets.
Atlético players: Only a tad more jubilant than me
