Andrew Schwartz | The Sun Magazine

Andrew Schwartz

Andrew Schwartz teaches writing at the University of California at Berkeley Extension. His essay in this issue is from an unpublished collection.

— From March 1997
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Traveling Stories

My father, though, seemed unaware of my contempt, and in June, as my high-school-graduation gift, he took me to Torremolinos, on the coast of Spain. He’d booked us a room at a midpriced, touristy hotel through some educator’s discount travel plan. We saw a bullfight. We swam.

March 1997
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