Afterword / Dorothy Spears. The St. Louis-Chicago mail / Charles A. Lindbergh -- West with the night / Beryl Markham -- A pilot grows up / Amelia Earhart -- Night flight / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- All the brave promises / Mary Lee Settle -- They shall not grow old / Roald Dahl -- The lost pilot / James Tate -- Chief White Halfoat / Joseph Heller -- Burning the days / James Salter -- How I met my husband / Alice Munro -- The angels / Tom Wolfe -- The age of love / Jerry Stahl -- En route to the Congress of dreams or the zipless fuck / Erica Jong -- Flyboys / Tobias Wolff -- Testimony of pilot / Barry Hannah -- On the road / Joan Didion -- Falling / James Dickey -- The golden triangle / Linda Yablonsky -- The girl on the plane / Mary Gaitskill -- Jack, the road, and me / Gary Horn -- The myth of the frequent flier / Jonathan Tel -- Birds in fall / Brad Kessler -- Inside the tube / Meghan Daum -- The baggage carousel / Thomas Beller -- I met a woman on the plane / Grace Paley -- Up in the air / Walter Kirn -- Afterbirth / Sheila M. Schwartz -- Crybaby / David Sedaris -- Dark man at the airport / Saïd Sayrafiezadeh -- The adventures of Hazy Lily / Bernard Chabbert -- My friends : there is no orchestra / John Bowe -- White sky / Rachel Cantor -- Heart machine time / Bill Brown -- Pilot, co-pilot, writer / Manuel Gonzales -- Afterword / Dorothy Spears.
Summary:
Collection of fiction, nonfiction and poetry on the topic of air travel.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.