A review by kst718
The Best American Travel Writing 2012 by William T. Vollmann, Jason Wilson

2.0

Usually I like this series of anthologies but not this volume. It irked me that nearly all of the entries were by men (in one case, one author had two different chapters--are there really no good female travel writers??), many of the authors were not American (or perhaps had been naturalized later in life, in which case, welcome and carry on), and "travel" writing was a bit of a stretch. For example, one person talked about being afraid of violence when growing up as a child in her native South Africa. How is that considered travel writing?