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Marianne Rogoff: The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011

Posted on Monday, July 11, 2011, by Lindsey Westbrook

The Best Women's Travel Writing 2011
Travelers' Tales, 2011
Paperback, 352 pages, $18.95

Marianne Rogoff (Writing and Literature faculty) contributes the short story "Common Tongues" to the latest edition of The Best Women's Travel Writing. The story takes place in the context of a week-long writers' retreat in Todos Santos, Mexico. After an evening's bickering and mean margarita workshop, the characters devolve into foreign-language laughter dialogues with the Latvians who have moved into the rooms next door at Hotel California. Other stories in the book tell of wild horses in the American Southwest, riding the backroads of old China on a motorcycle, walking the walk of Muslim women in Egypt, fighting it out in a kung fu monastery in China, discovering the hidden magic of Flamenco in Spain, and more.