The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) announced on Thursday the finalists for the fifty-ninth annual National Magazine Awards. Texas Monthly was nominated for two National Magazine Awards: the February 2023 “Texas Icons” issue is a finalist in the single-topic issue category, and executive editor Michael Hall’s May 2023 profile of Houston folklorist Mack McCormick, “Hellhounds on His Trail,” is a finalist in the profile-writing category.Executive editor Jeff Salamon spearheaded the February 2023 issue, which commemorated Texas Monthly‘s fiftieth anniversary; it was an enormous team effort, involving dozens of writers and contributions from much of the editorial staff. The Mack McCormick profile, which followed up on a feature Hall wrote in 2002 and had been years in the making, was also edited by Salamon. ASME…