Travel Writer
Destination: Africa Book: One Day I Will Write About This Place (NEW August 2011) by Binyavanga Wainaina (NOTE: After I wrote and titled this review, I carefully read Binyavanga Wainaina’s sardonic instructions on “How to Write About Africa” in the magazine Granta. You may want to check as you compile your Africa reading list.) Binyavanga [...]
Destination: Greece Book: Ionia: A Quest, by Freya Stark, new edition of a travel classic Read a terrific interview with Freya Stark in her eighties. (This is the third of a series of posts about women travel writers, in conjunction with the release of the movie Eat, Pray, Love)
Time to plug a little of my own travel literature. Not a travel book yet, but some things to put in your virtual travel library, about my travels from Delaware to Arizona and Mexico to Greece.
OFFICIAL TRAVEL WRITER Virgin Airlines and V-Hip Hotels choose a travel laureate, tasked with writing fiction to inspire off the beaten track travel. Our kind of guy. COMING SOON: THE REALLY ULTIMATE TRAVEL MOVIE Fun article by an extra in Eat PrayLove (Thanks to World Hum) NEW ZEALAND NAMES BEST TRAVEL WRITERS AND BOOK Under [...]
William Dalrymple cuts loose on the subject of travel writing in the Guardian There I was wondering what on earth I could write about for my 200th POST, when my Blackberry blinked and buzzed and delivered up this article from Last Friday’s Guardian newspaper. William Dalrymple’s thoughts on travel literature deserve a reading because he [...]
Today we are reading poll results. Since we read anything that inspires and informs travel, it seems appropriate to read what the Travel Insights 100–travel writers and bloggers, including moi–have to say.
The first book to be given away (announcement of winner on August 17):
Destination: The Caribbean Book: The Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul Quotable Thursday quote: I’m the kind of writer that people think other people are reading. V. S. Naipaul The question is, if a man writes well, does it matter what kind of human being he is? I delayed reading V. S. Naipaul because although [...]
