This short piece I wrote about the best beaches in Barbados was just published in the Ottawa Citizen and the Vancouver Sun. I’m off to Barbados again in April — lucky me!
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Barbados and its Beaches
Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged Barbados on March 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
My Year of (Rarely) Writing
Posted in Stories, Tangents, tagged World Hum, Writing on December 26, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Over at Nerd’s Eye View, my friend Pam recently wrote a post about the best of her year in writing. After listing her favorite posts of 2010, month by month, she invited her loyal readers to share the keepers from their own blogs or print writing efforts — which was right about the time I [...]
‘Eat, Pray, Love’: The Movie
Posted in Stories, tagged Eat Pray Love, Movies, World Hum on August 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
If you’ve never talked with me about the EPL phenomenon, here’s the quick guide to where I stood before the movie came out: Liked the book; loved Elizabeth Gilbert as a writer more generally; was skeptical about the concept of a journey of self-discovery; thought Julia Roberts was the wrong casting call, but was optimistic [...]
The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time
Posted in Stories, tagged Travel Books, World Hum on June 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Here it is, the monster World Hum project I’ve been working on in fits and starts for several months now: The 100 Most Celebrated Travel Books of All Time. It’s a semi-scientific compilation of the most lauded, most popular, most read, most what-have-you travel books out there. We put it together by drawing on “best [...]
The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010
Posted in Stories, tagged Best Women's Travel Writing, New York City, World Hum on March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got a new interview with the anthology’s editor, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, up on World Hum — we talk, among other things, about travel writing’s traditional gender imbalance and whether there’s a distinction to be made between “women’s travel writing” and “travel writing by a woman.” Check it out. Also, if you’re in the New [...]
March: In Like a Lamb…
Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged Interviews, Movies, World Hum, Yukon on March 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
And out like a dine-and-dasher; I have no idea where this past month went. I’ve been keeping busy — I spent the first week of March in the Pacific Northwest, five days mid-month road-tripping the Dempster Highway, and am just back from a weekend in Skagway, AK for a cross-country ski race. And of course [...]
Happy (Belated) 75th Birthday, Elvis
Posted in Stories, tagged Movies, World Hum on January 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Just a quick story update. The King would have hit the three-quarter century mark last Friday, so Eli Ellison and I celebrated with – what else? – a list: King of the Road: Five Great Elvis Travel Movies. It was a lot of fun to put together. I followed that one up on Monday with [...]
Happy New Year! Now Read These Lists.
Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged Movies, World Hum on January 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s been a busy holiday season – in addition to eating all the chocolate, cheese and clementines I could get my paws on, I’ve been neck-deep in the hallowed media tradition of the year-end list(s). We had a raft of 2009 send-off content on World Hum: The Best Travel Books of 2009 World Hum’s 2009 [...]
“Up in the Air” and “Tropic of Hockey”
Posted in Stories, Tangents, tagged Books, Movies, World Hum on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A couple of quick notes: First, this past Friday at World Hum was devoted to “Up in the Air,” the travel-themed movie that looks set to tear up the awards circuit this year. It was adapted from a Walter Kirn novel of the same name, which Jim and Mike have been keeping tabs on since [...]
The Best American Travel Writing 2009 + Blog Update
Posted in Stories, Updates, tagged Best American Travel Writing, Blogging, New York City, World Hum on October 10, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I attended the launch party for this year’s anthology at Idlewild Books this week in New York, and – as I noted in this brief recap of the night – the packed event was tangible proof that there’s still an audience out there for literary travel essays. Considering this week’s news about Gourmet getting the [...]
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