Air Fare

*Total season's marketing budget of $15,000; individual book budget of $3,000. *Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to entire Sarabande database and to the personal contacts of Brown and Taylor. * 2,000 brochures and 1,000 postcards mailed to MFA programs, bookstores, libraries, and the personal contacts of Brown and Taylor. *Additional review copies sent to magazines with a focus on air travel/science. Special focus on in-flight magazines and airport bookstores. *Advanced copies available through Booksense Advanced Access program.

The perfect flying companion: an anthology of poems, stories and essays on flying.From takeoff to landing and everything in-between, this anthology is about flying and the culture surrounding this precarious method of transportation. From the awe of being airborne to the shrink-wrapped airplane meals, from the phobia of flying to the very real reason for that fear, everything is explored. Contributors include: Diane Ackerman, Margaret Atwood, Sharon Bryan, Andrea Hollender Budy, Kelly Cherry, Alain de Botton, Richard Garcia, Lise Goett, Albert Goldbarth, Jeffrey Harrison, Brenda Hillman, Peter LaSalle, Philip Levine, Lee Martin, William Matthews, Ian McEwan, Campbell McGrath, Carol Muske-Dukes, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shahib Nye, Barbara Ras, Sherrod Santos, Bruce Smith, Susan Stewart, Terese Svoboda, James Tate, Jean Valentine, Arthur Vogelsang, Charles Harper Webb, Jan Wesley, Colson Whitehead, Gary Young