The Best American Travel Writing - Paperback

by Jason Wilson (Author)

Number-one New York Times best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love and Committed: A Love Story, Elizabeth Gilbert transports readers to far-flung locales with this collection of the year's lushest and most inspiring travel writing.

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The Best American Series(r)
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 2013 includes
Marie Arana, Bernd Brunner, Kevin Chroust, Ian Frazer

Dimiter Kenarov, David Sedaris, Grant Stoddard, John Jeremiah SullivanSarah A. Topol, Lynne Yaeger, and others

[INSERT AUTHOR PHOTO] ELIZABETH GILBERT is the author of four books, has been a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and has had pieces published in Spin, GQ, and The New York Times Magazine. She is best known for her memoir, Eat, Pray, Love, which chronicles her travels around the world. Her new novel, The Signature of All Things, will be released in fall 2013.

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THE BEST AMERICAN COMICSTHE BEST AMERICAN ESSAYSTHE BEST AMERICAN INFOGRAPHICSTHE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIESTHE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READINGTHE BEST AMERICAN SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITINGTHE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIESTHE BEST AMERICAN SPORTS WRITING"