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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.
Contributors: Lisa Kay Adam * Sarah Allison * Jane Armstrong * Thomas Beller * Ian Bogost * Alicia Catt * Laura Cayouette * Kim Chinquee * Lucy Corin * Douglas R. Dechow * Nicoletta-Laura Dobrescu * Tony D'Souza * Jeani Elbaum * Pia Z. Ehrhardt * Roxane Gay * Thomas Gibbs * Aaron Gilbreath * Anne Gisleson * Anya Groner * Julian Hanna * Rebecca Renee Hess * Susan Hodara * Pam Houston * Harold Jaffe * Chelsey Johnson * Nina Katchadourian * Alethea Kehas * Greg Keeler * Alison Kinney * Anna Leahy * Allyson Goldin Loomis * Jason Harrington * Kevin Haworth * Randy Malamud * Dustin Michael * Ander Monson * Timothy Morton * Peter Olson * Christiana Z. Peppard * Amanda Pleva * Arthur Plotnik * Neal Pollack * Connie Porter * Stephen Rea * Hugo Reinert * Jack Saux * Roger Sedarat * Nicole Sheets * Stewart Sinclair * Hal Sirowitz * Jess Stoner * Anca L. Szilágyi * Priscila Uppal * Matthew Vollmer * Joanna Walsh * Tarn Wilson
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About the Author
Christopher Schaberg is associate professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and author of The End of Airports.
Mark Yakich is a poet and professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans, and Editor of the New Orleans Review.
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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
An insightful exploration into the airplane journey that is both existential and humorous. This collection uncovers the surreal capacity of air travel to transport across tremendous distance but only after imposing a million grating indignities along the way. -- Rafia Zakaria, author of The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History of Pakistan
...a compendium of love letters to our century-long infatuation with flying chairs. ... Pursuant to publisher Zero Books' mission to deliver “another kind of discourse that is intellectual without being academic, popular without being populist,” the writings in Airplane Reading are tailored to the attention span we’re able to muster in the middle of our travels. ...the writing in Airplane Reading soars.
--Shaun Scott, City Arts magazine
"Airplane Reading is one of the most original collections of essays I’ve read. ... What an entertaining companion for above the clouds or below."
—Valerie Wieland, NEWPAGES
This book will amuse, entertain, and stimulate students of anthropology and cultural studies, as well as anyone with interest in mobility and transportation beyond the limits of the ivory tower.
—Younes Saramifar, research fellow at the Department of Anthropology of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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- PublisherZero Books
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1782798188
- ISBN 13 9781782798187
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages232
- EditorSchaberg Christopher, Yakich Mark
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