Airplane Reading
Christopher Schaberg, Mark Yakich
In Airplane Reading, Christopher Schaberg and Mark Yakich bring together a range of essays about air travel. Discerning and full of wonder, this prismatic collection features perspectives from a variety of writers, airline workers, and everyday travelers. At turns irreverent, philosophical, and earnest, each essay is a veritable journey in and of itself. And together, they illuminate the at once strange and ordinary world of flight.
Author Bio
Christopher Schaberg is associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans.
Online: Author Website, Blog, Twitter
Mark Yakich, a frequent yet fearful flier, received his Ph.D. in creative writing from Florida State University and is a poet and professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and Editor of the New Orleans Review.
Previous Titles
The End of Airports (9781501305498), Bloomsbury, 2015.
Poetry: A Survivor's Guide (9781501309496), Bloomsbury, 2015.
Endorsements
A marvelous story round-up exploring and explaining what air travel does to us—and makes us do. Buy it now, but save it to read on your next cross-country flight.
Harriet Baskas, travel writer for USAToday.com, author of Stuck at the Airport
Promotional Plans
Authors' websites, blogs, social media. Contributors with prominent followings, such as Ian Bogost, Lucy Corin, Roxane Gay, Pam Houston, Chelsey Johnson, Timothy Morton, William Vollman.
USP
Real stories from writers, scholars, air travelers, and even airline workers. Appealing, surprising, and thoroughly enjoyable.
Competing Books
Air Fare: Stories, Poems, and Essays on Flight (188933099X), by Ed. Judith Taylor & Nickole Brown
Sarabande , 2004
Categories
TRAVEL(TRV010000) -> Essays & Travelogues(TRV010000)
TRANSPORTATION(TRA002000) -> Aviation(TRA002000) -> General(TRA002000)
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Publication Date
July 2016
Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-78279-818-7
$22.95 | £13.99
8.5x5.5 inches | 216x140 mm
232PP
e-book
ISBN: 978-1-78279-962-7
$13.99 | £7.99
Library of Congress
2015958684
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