DAVID EMBLIDGE

-- Author, Editor, Educator --
Emerson College
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Credit: Abigail Selzer, 2001

CURRENT ACTIVITIES

WRITING

For University of Massachusetts Press, forthcoming 2010, a book of cultural history, about American booksellers, from the 18th century to the present. Tentative title, The American Bookstore.

A memoir, about my family's former summer house on Lake Erie, in Ontario, Canada. Tentative title, Prevailing Winds.

BOOK PACKAGING

I conceived and edited Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities, for Avalon Publishing Group (now Da Capo Press / Perseus). An option on the documentary film rights was recently sold to Cumbo Media. See MY WORKS.

TEACHING

At Emerson College, in the graduate program in Publishing and Writing, in 2008-09, I will teach "Book Publishing Overview," "Book Editing," and "Bookselling: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow." See QUICK LINKS, under SELECTED WORKS.

Umbrellas at a Beijing bus stop.

TRAVEL

Travel writing and editing assignments have taken me far and wide. Morocco and Patagonia are next.

Previous adventures in...

Belgium
Bermuda
Canada
China
Denmark
England
France
Greece
Guatemala
Holland
Ireland
Italy
Japan
Nepal
Scotland
Spain
St. Martin, West Indies
Switzerland
Tibet
USA
US Virgin Islands
Wales
and deep inner space.

WELCOME

On this web site you will find information about my professional life.

-- PUBLISHING WORKSHOPS FOR ACADEMIC AUTHORS

-- WRITING AND EDITING

-- BOOK PACKAGING

-- TEACHING

Queries about my work are welcome. However, I am not a publisher or a literary agent. Please do not send book proposals. Participants in my "Publishing Workshops" and others are welcome to inquire about manuscript and book development consultations.

SELECTED WORKS

Architecture / History / Engineering: Nonfiction

Beneath the Metropolis: The Secret Lives of Cities
Ever wonder what goes on under the city streets? Find out here -- in twelve cites around the world. Water, transportation, commuications, buried history. Fascinating stories, fully illustrated.

Autobiography / History: Nonfiction

My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936 - 1962
Mrs. Roosevelt wrote her column "My Day" six days a week for over a quarter of century, covering everything from politics to child rearing to the arts. Arthur Schlesinger called her "a remarkable woman." Indeed.

Outdoor Adventure / Literary Anthology

The Appalachian Trail Reader (Oxford Univ. Press, 1995)
A cornucopia of essays, journal entries, poems and more -- all about how America's most famous and oldest long hiking trail, from Georgia to Maine, was conceived and built, and how it is enjoyed by over four million people a year nowadays.

Outdoor Adventure: Trail Guides

Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in Southern New England
260 miles of trails / 29 hikes / Close to New England villages or deep in a National Forest, inaccessible by roads, by a rushing river or over 4,000 ft Killington Mt.

Soup to Nuts

THE MISCELLANY
A link to Amazon.com, for David Emblidge, and all the books (70+) where I am either author, editor, contributor, or a subject named in the text. Happy hunting!

Thanksgiving in Toulouse

French Turkey
An American Thanksgiving in France, broadcast on WAMC, NPR, Northeast Public Radio