The best American newspaper narratives, volume two / George Getschow, editor, writer-in-residence, The Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference.

Into the lonely quiet / Eli Saslow (The Washington Post) -- Marathon carjacking / Eric Moskowitz (The Boston Globe) -- The manhunt: a five-part series / Christopher Goffard (Los Angeles Times) -- A mother helps son in his struggle with schizophrenia / Stephanie McCrummen (The Washington Post) -- The lobotomy files / Forgotten soldiers : when America lobotomized its vets / Michael M. Phillips (The Wall Street Journal) -- Taken under / Aaron Applegate (The Virginian-Pilot) -- A mother, at her wit's end, sets out to find help for her sick son / Meg Kissinger (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel online) -- Last voyage of the Bounty / Michael Kruse, Don Morris, Alexis N. Sanchez, Lee Glynn, and Maurice Rivenbark (Tampa Bay Times) -- Alone on the hill / Shaun McKinnon (The Arizona Republic online) -- Almost justice: the Beau Zabel murder / Mike Newall (The Philadelphia Inquirer) -- Together despite all / Sarah Schweitzer (The Boston Globe).

... collects the twelve winners of the 2013 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The conference ... launched the competition to honor exemplary narrative work and to encourage narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across the United States