From the cocktails columnist at the "The New York Times" comes the scathingly funny, deeply moving story of a stranded airline passenger, whose enraged letter of complaint transforms into a lament for a life gone awry.
JONATHAN MILES is the author of Dear American Airlines, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2008 by the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Amazon.com. It was also a finalist for the QPB New Voices Award, the Borders Original Voices Award, and the Great Lakes Book Award, and has been translated into five languages.
He is a former columnist for the New York Times, and his journalism, essays, and literary criticism have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, GQ, Details, Men's Journal, the New York Observer, Field & Stream, Outside, Garden & Gun, Food & Wine, and many other magazines. His work has been included numerous times in the annual Best American Sports Writing and Best American Crime writing anthologies.
A former longtime resident of Oxford, Mississippi, he currently lives in New York. For more information, visit his Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jonathan-Miles/10150135297610099.
