An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having: Travel Stories from The Hairpin - Softcover

Frye, Carrie; Bustillos, Maria; Wortham, Jenna; Atik, Chiara; Cliffe, Nicole; Behrle, Jim; Petersen, Anne Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1477849254 ISBN 13: 9781477849255

Publisher: Lake Union Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

An Experience Definitely Worth Allegedly Having is a collection of essays on travel selected by Edith Zimmerman, the founder of the colorfully offbeat women’s website The Hairpin. Like The Hairpin, these essays are funny, weird, adventurous, and moving. There are stories about following a mysterious stranger’s maps in Mexico, attending endless step aerobics classes in Buenos Aires, faking a terrible British accent in London, and navigating a nude spa in Stockholm. About loneliness, connection, and sunburn. And about daring ourselves to be brave and embracing being scared.

These stories are tied together by relationships: making them, losing them, how we behave in their absence. How we thrive when we’re far from home and falling in and out of love in all of the world’s beautiful places.

This book was initially released in episodes as a Kindle Serial. All episodes are now available for immediate download as a complete book.

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About the Author

Carrie Frye, Maria Bustillos, Jenna Wortham, Nicole Cliffe, Anne Helen Petersen, Chiara Atik, and Jim Behrle have all contributed to The Hairpin. Edith Zimmerman is the founding editor of The Hairpin and a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine. She's also written for GQ, Elle, The Awl, and This American Life. She grew up in Cambridge, MA, and lives in Brooklyn.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1477849254
• ISBN 13: 9781477849255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 158
• Editor: Zimmerman Edith