Summer is here and so are our visitors. Jill Erickson and Jayne Iafrate join us with their tourism picks in a number of genres, including travel guides, memoirs, how-to books, and, of course, fiction.
Books mentioned on the show include:
A Room with a View by EM Forster
Summer on the Lakes by Margaret Fuller
A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Endless Feasts: Sixty Years of Writing from Gourmet, edited by Ruth Reichl
Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism by Elizabeth Becker
On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer by Rick Steves
Becoming Cape Cod: Creating a Seaside Resort by James O’Connel’s
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
Books for Idle Hours: Nineteenth-century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading by Donna Harrington-Lueker
The Third Hotel by Laura Van Den Berg
Overbooked by Elizabeth Becker
The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain
The Art of Pilgrimage by Phil Cousineau
