Publishers Embrace Travel Narratives by Non-Travel Writers2
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 05.30.02 | 4:49 PM ET
John Edgar Wideman, David Leavitt, Jeffrey Eugenides and Michael Cunningham are among the writers not usually known for travel writing who have recently been recruited by publishers to write travel narratives. National Geographic and Bloomsbury are the two publishers mainly responsible for the trend, according to Orlando Sentinel book critic Nancy Pate. NG lures writers for its Directions series by allowing them to travel to a destination of their own choice. Bloomsbury pairs writers with destinations they know well, and the result has been the very successful Writer and the City series. The first book in the line, Edmund White’s “The Flaneur: A Stroll through the Paradoxes of Paris,” has been through eight printings and sold more than 35,000 copies since publication last year.
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Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
