"Schaberg teaches literature, at Loyola University, in New Orleans, but he used to work at the airport in Bozeman, Montana, and his interest in the culture of flight arises from years spent on the tarmac and at the check-in desk. Schaberg's first book, "The Textual Life of Airports" (2011), explained how the airport mythologized and subverted air travel for passengers. That work emerged from his dissertation, and it followed a style of feverish pop-cultural close reading strangely valued in some academic quarters. It sometimes seemed a touch insane." -- Nathan Heller, The New Yorker "In a play on the double meaning of 'airport-reading' - both as the undemanding reading that helps pass time in airports and as the reading of airports themselves - The textual life of airports sets out to explore its subject in terms of the co-shapings, enfoldings and complicities of site and text. The overall effect of the book is reminiscent of Escher's pictures - such as Drawing Hands (1946) - in which figure and ground are always redrawing each other: airport writing and writing the airport. The textual life of airports should, I suggest, be of interest not only to students of cultural studies (Schaberg's main target audience), but to all those interested in the day-to-day accomplishment of 'grammatocentric'(Hoskin & Macve, 1994) organization." -- Organization Studies.