Introduction / Gayle Reaves -- The boys in the bunkhouse / Dan Barry (The New York Times) -- The favor / Christopher Goffard (Los Angeles Times) -- How Detroit was reborn: the inside story of Detroit's historic bankruptcy case / Nathan Bomey, John Gallagher and Mark Stryker (Detroit Free Press) -- Love and fire / Monica Hesse (The Washington Post) -- Chasing Bayla / Sarah Schweitzer (The Boston Globe) -- Then the walls closed in / Sarah Kleiner Varble (The Virginian pilot) -- Dangerous minds/Insane system / Joanne Kimberlin and Janie Bryant (The Virginian pilot) -- Fred Nelligan / Molly Harbarger (The Oregonian) -- Murray's problem / Mark Johnson (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Summary
Book is a collection of the 9 top winners of the annual Mayborn Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest