American Road® Autumn 2015 Issue Named Finalist for Two Distinct Awards

DETROIT, Oct. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- American Road is proud to announce that its Autumn 2015 issue, "American Lit 101," has been named a finalist for two awards:

• Folio: magazine has named American Road's "American Lit 101" issue a finalist for the 2016 Eddie Awards, in the Consumer - Full Issue - Travel category.
• Media Industry News (min) has named American Road a finalist for the 2016 Editorial & Design Awards in the Feature Article category. The nominated article, "Washington Irving Route," by Executive Editor Thomas Repp, is the main feature of the "American Lit 101" issue.

About the Awards
Folio: and min both celebrate the industry's editorial powerhouses and creative designers.

Folio: describes the Folio: Eddie & Ozzie Awards as "the most comprehensive awards competition in media publishing" and an opportunity to "celebrate gorgeous design and uncompromising journalism."

min's Editorial & Design Awards highlight "excellence in content and design among consumer, business-to-business and specialized information media brands." These finalists, as min describes, "have set incredible new benchmarks in their writers' rooms and design studios."

For information and a full list of finalists, visit foliomag.com/awards and mineditanddesign.com.

A Look Inside "American Lit 101"
Literature, like travel, is all about the trip. And in this issue of American Road^®, the trip is all about literature.

The main feature, one of American Road's Original Series, "New York's Washington Irving Route," visits the Hudson Valley haunts of the Original Knickerbocker—America's First Man of Letters—the author who set a headless horseman on the heels of Ichabod Crane.

"American Road's Top 12 Classic Travel Books" celebrates the best travel journals of the past two centuries, with writers such as Lewis and Clark, Wolfe, and Kerouac at the wheel. The American Road departments find their way to Walt Whitman's Birthplace, Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, and Herman Melville's Arrowhead.

Whether strolling the banks of Walden Pond, dropping by the House of Seven Gables, or puttering around with a pup like John Steinbeck did in Travels with Charlie, good literature draws the past into the present and shapes substance into memory. Call it magic or call it Ishmael.

About American Road:
American Road is on newsstands and in fine bookstores. A digital edition and an iTunes app for the iPad is also available.

To preview the Autumn 2015 issue, visit: http://mydigimag.rrd.com/publication?i=273373

SOURCE American Road Magazine