Writer's Handbook

Required book: The Best American Travel Writing 2014, Ed. Paul Theroux & Jason Wilson. Mariner Books, 2014. ISBN 978-0544330153 A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives, and Inspiration, Ed. Michael Shapiro. Travelers’ Tales, 2004. ISBN 978-1932361087 The Travel Writer's Handbook: How to Write — and Sell — Your Own Travel Experiences, Jacqueline Harmon Butler and Louise Purwin Zobel. Agate Surrey, 2012. ISBN 978-1572841314 Required reading for writing this paper: Read from Best American Travel Writing - “Poisoned Land” by Batuman, “Amigos” by Cook, “Life During War Time” by Di Giovanni, and “America the Marvelous” by Gill. Read from A Sense of Place the interviews of Cahill, Mayes, and Raban. Read from The Travel Writer’s Handbook chapters 1-3. I am not giving you direct instructions on the form I want your response to take; I want you to decide how you are going to interpret/react/use each week’s readings. However, without summarizing the various readings, your posts should indicate to me that you have done all of the reading for the week. If you only address one article then I will assume you did not read them all. Note, you need not be entirely positive in your responses. Did you hate something in the readings? Great! Tell us about it.