Book Talk! John McMurtie's LITERARY JOURNEYS

ABOUT THE BOOK

A beautifully illustrated guide to over seventy-five important journeys in world literature, spanning more than thirty countries and twenty-five hundred years.
From Homer’s Odyssey, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and Cervantes’s Don Quixote to Melville’s Moby-Dick, Kerouac’s On the Road, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, some of the most powerful works of fiction center on a journey. Extending to the ends of the earth and spanning from ancient Greece to today, Literary Journeys is an enthralling book that takes you on a voyage of discovery through some of the most important journeys in literature. In original essays, an international team of literary critics, scholars, and other writers explore exciting, dangerous, tragic, and uplifting journeys in more than seventy-five classic and popular works of fiction from around the world. Chronologically arranged and gorgeously illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, photographs, and maps in full color, this captivating book will appeal to readers who have travelled widely, who are planning a trip, or who love armchair travel.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John McMurtrie is an independent book editor. He is senior editor of the literary journal Zyzzyva, a contributing editor of the quarterly literary travel magazine Stranger’s Guide, and an editor for McSweeney’s Publishing. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Literary Hub. He served as the books editor of the San Francisco Chronicle for a decade. A native of Boston, he lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

ABOUT THE INTERLOCUTOR

Sarah Mesle is a founding editor of the digital magazine Avidly and the NYU Press book series Avidly Reads. Her criticism and profiles have appeared in venues ranging from The New York Times Magazine to InStyle to The Los Angeles Review of Books, where she has also served as Senior Humanities Editor. She has two books forthcoming: Reasons and Feelings: Humanities Writing Now (Chicago UP) and a collection of essays called Tangled: American Racism and White Women’s Hair (Beacon Press). She teaches writing and editing at the University of Southern California.

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