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Best American Travel Writing
''The Best American Travel Writing'' was a yearly anthology of travel literature published in United States magazines. It was started in 2000 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin. Essays were chosen using the same procedure as other titles in the Best American series; the series editor chose about 100 article candidates, from which the guest editor picked 25 or so for publication; the remaining runner-up articles were listed in the appendix. Jason Wilson was the series editor from its inception in 2000 to its final edition in 2021. Guest editors * 2000: Bill Bryson * 2001: Paul Theroux * 2002: Frances Mayes * 2003: Ian Frazier * 2004: Pico Iyer * 2005: Jamaica Kincaid * 2006: Tim Cahill * 2007: Susan Orlean * 2008: Anthony Bourdain * 2009: Simon Winchester * 2010: Bill Buford * 2011: Sloane Crosley * 2012: William Vollmann * 2013: Elizabeth Gilbert * 2014: Paul Theroux * 2015: Andrew McCarthy * 2016: Bill Bryson * 2017: Lauren Collins * 2018: Cheryl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Travel Literature
The genre of travel literature or travelogue encompasses outdoor literature, guide books, nature writing, and travel memoirs. History Early examples of travel literature include the '' Periplus of the Erythraean Sea'' (generally considered a 1st century CE work; authorship is debated), Pausanias' ''Description of Greece'' in the 2nd century CE, '' Safarnama'' (Book of Travels) by Nasir Khusraw (1003-1077), the '' Journey Through Wales'' (1191) and '' Description of Wales'' (1194) by Gerald of Wales, and the travel journals of Ibn Jubayr (1145–1214), Marco Polo (1254–1354), and Ibn Battuta (1304–1377), all of whom recorded their travels across the known world in detail. As early as the 2nd century CE, Lucian of Samosata discussed history and travel writers who added embellished, fantastic stories to their works. The travel genre was a fairly common genre in medieval Arabic literature. In China, 'travel record literature' () became popular during the Song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sloane Crosley
Sloane Crosley (born August 3, 1978) is an American writer living in New York City known for her humorous essays, which are often collected into books like '' I Was Told There'd Be Cake'', ''How Did You Get This Number'', and ''Look Alive Out There''. She has also worked as a publicist at the Vintage Books division of Random House and as an adjunct professor in Columbia University's Master of Fine Arts program. Her recent work includes a novel ''Cult Classic'' (2022) and her memoir '' Grief Is for People'' (2024), largely about the death of her friend Russell Perreault. Education Crosley graduated from Connecticut College in 2000. Career Riverhead Books published Crosley's first collection of essays '' I Was Told There'd Be Cake'' on April 1, 2008. The book appeared on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. It was a finalist for the Thurber Prize for American Humor, one of Amazon's best books of the year, and optioned by HBO. Crosley's second collection of essays, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Publications Established In 2000
To publish is to make Content (media), content available to the general public.Berne Convention, article 3(3) URL last accessed 2025-05-23.Universal Copyright Convention, Geneva text (1952), article VI . URL last accessed 2010-05-10. While specific use of the term may vary among countries, it is usually applied to Text (literary theory), text, images, or other audio-visual content, including paper (newspapers, magazines, Mail-order catalog, catalogs, etc.). Publication means the act of publishing, and also any copies issued for public distributio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Best American Series
''The Best American Series'' is a series of anthologies that is published annually by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Each title within the series covers a specific genre such as short stories or mysteries. The works for each year's edition are selected from those published elsewhere during the previous year. ''The Best American Short Stories'' has been published since 1915, making it the oldest continuous series of its type. Starting in 1986, additional titles were added for essays, sports writing, nature writing and more, at which time the broader ''The Best American Series'' moniker was introduced. The series was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt prior to HarperCollins acquiring HMH Books & Media in 2021. Editing Each title has a continuing series editor who makes an initial selection of notable works from which a guest editor chooses those for inclusion in that year's edition. Guest editors are established authors in the title's associated genre. A new gue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Series Introduced In 2000
A book is a structured presentation of recorded information, primarily verbal and graphical, through a medium. Originally physical, electronic books and audiobooks are now existent. Physical books are objects that contain printed material, mostly of writing and images. Modern books are typically composed of many pages bound together and protected by a cover, what is known as the ''codex'' format; older formats include the scroll and the tablet. As a conceptual object, a ''book'' often refers to a written work of substantial length by one or more authors, which may also be distributed digitally as an electronic book (ebook). These kinds of works can be broadly classified into fiction (containing invented content, often narratives) and non-fiction (containing content intended as factual truth). But a physical book may not contain a written work: for example, it may contain ''only'' drawings, engravings, photographs, sheet music, puzzles, or removable content like paper dolls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padma Lakshmi
Padma Parvati Lakshmi (; née Vaidynathan; born September 1, 1970) is an American television host, model, author, businesswoman, and activist. She rose to prominence by hosting the Bravo cooking competition program '' Top Chef'' (2006–2023). Lakshmi is the creator, host, and executive producer of the docuseries '' Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi'', which premiered in 2020 on Hulu. For her work with these two series, as an executive producer and as a host, she has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations. Born in India, Lakshmi immigrated to the United States as a child. She became a model before embarking on a career in television. She has written five books: two cookbooks, ''Easy Exotic'' and ''Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet''; an encyclopedia, ''The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs: An Essential Guide to the Flavors of the World''; a memoir, ''Love, Loss, and What We Ate''; and a children's book, ''Tomatoes for Neela'' illustrated by Juana Martinez-Neal, the latter two app ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Macfarlane (writer)
Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include ''The Old Ways'' (2012), ''Landmarks'' (2015), ''The Lost Words'' (2017) and '' Underland'' (2019). In 2017 he received The E. M. Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to professor of modern Chinese history and literature Julia Lovell. In 2022 and 2024, Macfarlane was named as an outside contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Prize in those years was won by Annie Ernaux and Han Kang respectively. Early life and education Macfarlane was born in Halam in Nottinghamshire, and attended Nottingham High School. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He began a PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2000, and in 2001 was elected a Fellow of the college. Family His father John Macfarlan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandra Fuller
Alexandra Fuller (born 1969) is a British- Zimbabwean author. Her articles and reviews have appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''National Geographic'', ''Granta'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Guardian'' and ''The Financial Times''. Personal life In 1972 Fuller moved with her family to Rhodesia (later Zimbabwe Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe). She was educated at boarding schools in Umtali and Salisbury (renamed Harare after 1982). She met her American husband, Charlie Ross, in Zambia, where he was running a rafting business for tourists. In 1994, they moved to his home state of Wyoming. Fuller and Ross divorced in 2012. They had two daughters and one son together. Their son, Fi, died in his sleep at the age of 21. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Strayed
Cheryl Strayed (; née Nyland; born September 17, 1968) is an American writer and podcast host. She has written four books: the novel ''Torch'' (2006) and the nonfiction books '' Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail'' (2012), '' Tiny Beautiful Things'' (2012) and ''Brave Enough'' (2015). ''Wild'', the story of Strayed's 1995 hike up the Pacific Crest Trail, is an international bestseller and was adapted into the 2014 Academy Award-nominated film '' Wild''. Early life Strayed was born in Spangler, Pennsylvania, the second daughter of Barbara Anne "Bobbi" (née Young; 1945–1991) and Ronald Nyland. From age three to six, Strayed was sexually abused by her paternal grandfather. At age six, her family moved from Pennsylvania to Chaska, Minnesota. Her parents divorced soon after and Cheryl's father left her life. When Cheryl was 12 her mother married Glenn Lambrecht, and the following year the family moved to rural Aitkin County, where they lived in a house that th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Collins (journalist)
Lauren Zurn Collins (born 1980, Wilmington, North Carolina) is an American journalist who has been a staff writer at ''The New Yorker'' since 2008. She is the author of ''When in French: Love in a Second Language'' (2016). Since 2010, Collins has been based in Europe, covering stories for the ''New Yorker'' from London, Paris, Copenhagen, and other capitals. Fluent in French, Collins currently lives in Paris with her husband and two children. Bibliography O.B.L. (August 22, 2005)--> * * * * * * * * * * * * * Title in the online table of contents is "Europe’s Child–Refugee Crisis". * Online version is titled "America's Most Political Food". * Online version is titled "The future of Europe hinges on a face-off in France". * Online version is titled "Miss America’s history–makers and rule–breakers". * Online version is titled "Stop doomscrolling and play a board game about class warfare". * Online version is titled "The formidable charm of Omar Sy". * Online ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew McCarthy
Andrew Thomas McCarthy (born November 29, 1962) is an American actor, travel writer, and television director. He is most known as a member of the Brat Pack, with roles in 1980s films such as '' St. Elmo's Fire'', ''Pretty in Pink'', ''Mannequin'', and '' Weekend at Bernie's''. He is ranked No. 40 on VH1's 100 Greatest Teen Stars of all-time list. As a director, he is known for his work on ''Orange Is the New Black''. Early life and education McCarthy was born in Westfield, New Jersey, the third of four boys. His mother worked for a newspaper, and his father was involved in investments and stocks. McCarthy moved to Bernardsville, New Jersey, as a teenager and attended Bernards High School and the Pingry School, a preparatory academy. At Pingry, he played the Artful Dodger in '' Oliver!'', his first acting role. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at NYU for acting, but was expelled after two years. Career McCarthy's first major role was in the 1983 comedy ''Class ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert (born July 18, 1969) is an American journalist and author. She is best known for her 2006 memoir '' Eat, Pray, Love'', which has sold over 30 million copies and has been translated into over 30 languages. The book was also made into a film of the same name in 2010. Early life, education, and career Gilbert was born in Waterbury, Connecticut in 1969. Her father, John Gilbert, was a chemical engineer at Uniroyal; her mother, Carole, was a nurse and established a Planned Parenthood clinic. When Gilbert was four, her parents bought a Christmas tree farm in Litchfield, Connecticut. The family lived in the country with no neighbors; they did not own a television or record player. Consequently, the family read a great deal, and Gilbert and her older sister Catherine Gilbert Murdock entertained themselves by writing books and plays. Gilbert has said that her parents were not hippies but modern pioneers, "My parents are the only people I've ever known who made their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
