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 axe, it was a much-needed reminder.
I’ve been focused on the World Hum blog lately, so nothing new in the full-length story department – but if you’re interested, here are some of the short items that have been keeping me busy and entertained:
- We’ve been on a wacky-map spree – check out Mapped: The Cheeses of Britain and Ireland, The World’s Connections, Mapped, and McDonald’s in America, Mapped.
- I blogged two bits of fun movie silliness – one on movie titles and their bizarre translations, and one featuring movie characters reviewing their fictional destinations, TripAdvisor-style.
- We’ve also been running a new occasional series called Video You Must See – some of the latest include Biking Bolivia’s Death Road, Burning Man in Time-Lapse and the terrifying Buried in an Avalanche.
Eva Holland 
Hey Eva…check out my friends’, Carl and Emma’s, post about death road. Particularly the video at the end:
http://carlem.blogspot.com/2008/04/death-road-survivors.html
Literary travel essays will last, they’ve to, if for no other reason than because where else can you otherwise ‘meet’ travelers you’d like to hear if not through their literary travel essays.
Thanks for the dose of faith. Places willing to publish literary travel essays sometimes feel few and far between.