The Best American Travel Writing 2011: The Best American Series
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First, Best, and Best-Selling
The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume's series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites . A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series the most respected—and most popular—of its kind.
The Best American Travel Writing 2011 includes
André Aciman, Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd,
Verlyn Klinkenborg, Ariel Levy, Téa Obreht, Annie Proulx,
Gary Shteyngart, William T. Vollmann,
Emily Witt, and others
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Jason Wilson. (2011). The Best American Travel Writing 2011: The Best American Series. HarperCollins.
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JASON WILSON, series editor, is the author of Godforsaken Grapes, Boozehound, and The Cider Revival. He is the creator of the newsletter and podcast Everyday Drinking. Wilson has been the series editor of The Best American Travel Writing since its inception in 2000. His work can be found at jasonwilson.com.
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The Best American Travel Writing 2011 includes
André Aciman, Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd,
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An eclectic but not particularly strong collection of pieces involving travel around the globe and around the yard.
Independent columnist Crosley (How Did You Get This Number, 2010, etc.) presents a wide variety of pieces, including André Aciman's search for Monet sites in Bordighera, Christopher Buckley's brief account of a year on a tramp freighter, Keith Gessen's grousings about Moscow traffic and Emily Witt's sophomoric snippets about her drinking and partying in Miami. At times, Crosley seems bent on juxtaposing pieces to see what light may emerge from the collision, say, between Téa Obreht's peregrinations in the Balkans hearing vampire stories and Annie Proulx's quiet walks around her Wyoming ranch observing the wildlife. At other times, the editor places shorter pieces (Gary Shteyngart's cryptic ruminations about Russians in Israel) before longer ones (William T. Vollmann's six visits to Kirkuk to learn about the Kurds and the explosive politics in the region). There are essays by writers who went to geographical extremes (Justin Nobel to Arctic Quebec, Verlyn Klinkenborg to a remote area of Australia, Maureen Dowd to Saudi Arabia) and those who stuck closer to home (Ariel Levy to the Hamptons for an enlightening piece about Indian casinos, Jessica McCaughey on a local hike where she tried to cure her inept internal GPS). Some pieces have moments that are downright harrowing: Mischa Berlinski's views of earthquake devastation in Haiti, Tom Ireland's time in Mumbai while terrorists were killing people.
Although these writers invariably have something novel to say, there aren't a lot of moments that will make armchair travelers race out to renew their passports.
(COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
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Crosley, in her introduction to this year's edition of the popular series, notes that the new obstacle of travel in the age of informationand thus, uberpreparednessis the extinction of the unexpected. Crosley sets the hopeful traveler's tone with Andr' Aciman's serendipity-filled adventure to hunt down the ghost of a Monet subjecta villa on the Italian Riviera. Emily Witt's short-attention-span-friendly Miami Party Boom earns points for most creative format, each interlude chronicling a social event and its characters. There's much affection for contributors' subjects to be found herefrom Mischa Berlinski's Haiti, and the young man he befriends there, to T'a Obreht's Serbia, where she reveals a decidedly unique take on American vampire mania. Readers, beware: few may feel courageous enough to attempt their own bird-watching journal after a flight in the tender grip of Annie Proulx's enchanting diary of an aviary Wyoming year. Crosley reminds readers that the nature of the world is that it will provide that valuable introductory course only once, and her selections succeed in piquing the armchair traveler's wanderlust.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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Independent columnist Crosley (How Did You Get This Number, 2010, etc.) presents a wide variety of pieces, including Andr� Aciman's search for Monet sites in Bordighera, Christopher Buckley's brief account of a year on a tramp freighter, Keith Gessen's grousings about Moscow traffic and Emily Witt's sophomoric snippets about her drinking and partying in Miami. At times, Crosley seems bent on juxtaposing pieces to see what light may emerge from the collision, say, between T�a Obreht's peregrinations in the Balkans hearing vampire stories and Annie Proulx's quiet walks around her Wyoming ranch observing the wildlife. At other times, the editor places shorter pieces (Gary Shteyngart's cryptic ruminations about Russians in Israel) before longer ones (William T. Vollmann's six visits to Kirkuk to learn about the Kurds and the explosive politics in the region). There are essays by writers who went to geographical extremes (Justin Nobel to Arctic Quebec, Verlyn Klinkenborg to a remote area of Australia, Maureen Dowd to Saudi Arabia) and those who stuck closer to home (Ariel Levy to the Hamptons for an enlightening piece about Indian casinos, Jessica McCaughey on a local hike where she tried to cure her inept internal GPS). Some pieces have moments that are downright harrowing: Mischa Berlinski's views of earthquake devastation in Haiti, Tom Ireland's time in Mumbai while terrorists were killing people.
Although these writers invariably have something novel to say, there aren't a lot of moments that will make armchair travelers race out to renew their passports.
(COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
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André Aciman, Christopher Buckley, Maureen Dowd,
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