Synopses & Reviews
Review
"It's a captivating literary anthology that can be enjoyed on location or in the oft-mentioned armchair." Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
The Best American Travel Writing 2002 is edited by Frances Mayes, the author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany and the master of running away to live in the place of ones dreams” (Los Angeles Times). Giving new life to armchair travel for 2002 are David Sedaris on God and airports, Kate Wheeler on a most dangerous Bolivian festival, André Aciman on the eternal pleasures of Rome, and many more.
About the Author
Jason Wilson is a prolific travel writer, having published numerous travel essays in such publications as HEMISPHERES, THE WASHINGTON POST, TRAVEL &LEISURE, THE NEW YORK TIMES, P.O.V., NEW ENGLAND REVIEW, THE TIMES PICAYUNE, FLIGHT, CONTINENTAL, AMERICAN WAY, TRIP, THE PHILADELPHIA CITY PAPER, among many other prestigious publications. His travel writing has also earned him three Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards for both "Best Magazine Article on a U.S. Destination" and "Best Magazine Article on a Foreign Destination," three Society of Professional Journalists Awards for Magazine Feature Writing, a Garden State Association of Black Journalists Award, and has been selected as "Notable Essay" in THE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYS 1997, 1998, and 1999. Mr. Wilson was also the founder of the now-defunct, but well-loved travel journal, GRAND TOUR, which THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER called, "A travel journal with two kinds of writing: good and better," and which THE WASHINGTON POST called, "A fine new magazine...creating a new home for the best sort of travel writing...the editors have an eye for writers who can take the smallest moments of existence abroad, and exalt them." Mr. Wilson has taught magazine writing and creative writing at a number of universities, and will be teaching travel writing at the graduate level at Rosemont College in the Philadelphia area beginning in Spring 2000.
Table of Contents
Contents
Foreword xi Introduction by Frances Mayes xvii
André Aciman. Roman Hours 1 from Condé Nast Traveler
Scott Anderson. Below Canal Street 11 from Esquire
Stephen Bodio. Sovereigns of the Sky 20 from The Atlantic Monthly
William Booth. Throw Junior from the Car 27 from The Washington Post Magazine
Kevin Canty. Postcards from the Fair 36 from The Oxford American
Rod Davis. A Rio Runs Through It 45 from The San Antonio Express-News
Michael Finkel. Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Void 81 from National Geographic Adventure
Devin Friedman. Forty Years in Acapulco 97 from Mens Journal
Laurence Gonzales. Beyond the End of the Road 107 from National Geographic Adventure
Adam Gopnik. The City and the Pillars 124 from The New Yorker
Jim Harrison. Soul Food 131 from Mens Journal
Kate Hennessy. Slow Flying Stones 145 from DoubleTake
Edward Hoagland. Visiting Norah 163 from Worth
Kathleen Lee. The Scent of Two Cities 188 from Condé Nast Traveler
Lawrence Millman. In the Land of the White Rajahs 200 from Islands
Toni Mirosevich. Lambs of God and the New Math 211 from The San Francisco Chronicle
Tom Mueller. Ancient Roads, Walled Cities 220 from Hemispheres
Elizabeth Nickson. Where the Bee Sucks 229 from Harpers Magazine
Molly Oneill. Home for Dinner 245 from The New Yorker
P. J . Orourke. Zions Vital Signs 263 from The Atlantic Monthly
Tony Perrottet. Spain in a Minor Key 282 from Islands
Kira Salak. Making Rain 294 from Quarterly West
David Sedaris. The Man Upstairs 310 from Esquire
Thomas Swick. Stolen Blessings 316 from The South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Isabella Tree. Spétses, Greece 321 from Islands
Kate Wheeler. The Fist of God 327 from Outside
Contributors Notes 343 Notable Travel Writing of 2001 348