Interview with Michael Shapiro
Michael Shapiro, the author of A Sense of Place: Great Travel Writers Talk About Their Craft, Lives and Inspiration , was recently interviewed on KPBS. You can listen to the 15 minute interview right on…
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1321 postsWomen with Wanderlust
GoNomad has a new article up that features ten books about travel by women . Some great suggestions here from author Kelly Westhoff, including a few mentioned previously on WR. One of the books she…
Read more →West Coast Author Events
Two upcoming author appearances happening next week: Barbara Hodgson, author of Italy Out of Hand: A Capricious Tour Monday, May 23, 7:30 pm Distant Lands , Pasadena, CA Author Barbara Hodgson found a…
Read more →Asia Grace
Asia Grace is a unique photography book self-published by Kevin Kelly in 2002. The production notes of how this book came to be tell a truly amazing story, about a fantastic labor of love that took over…
Read more →Asian Tourism Mags Article
Here's an interesting article from the just released Columbia Journalism New York Review of Magazines : Paradise Lost - How Asian tourism magazines survived in the wake of the tsunami (PDF) Author Emily…
Read more →Stanfords Book and Map Store
I stumbled upon the website of British map and bookseller Stanfords , which Jen mentioned in 2002 . There are a few handy features on their site worth pointing out: They've organized their travel books…
Read more →Halliday Hopper Reading
The Job Hopper tour comes to Baltimore tonight! You may recall Jen's post about Ayun's latest book . I'll be picking up my own copy in person this evening at Atomics Books (recently featured by The Book…
Read more →Guide to Experimental Travel
The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel is due to release in June, so you can't get your hands on it just yet, but I've gathered some early buzz about this out-of-the-ordinary travel guide. (click…
Read more →Booksignings
Writers Weekly had an article on booksigning tips this week. Martha Reed offered good advice, but I wanted the more pastel Martha Stewart version. At some point before the Thong tour, I'll do a piss take…
Read more →2nd Vegas Stats
Current Location: Kitchen Table, Home, Las Vegas, NV Current Weather: 79F, In the shaded patio Current Reads: Thong stories Movies this week: Monster In Law Days in Vegas since the move: 20 Times I've…
Read more →The Book Standard Features Distant Lands
I was thrilled to see that one of my favorite bookstores, Distant Lands , was the featured bookstore in The Book Standard. But I caught it through an email and I'd never heard of this cool…
Read more →Globe-Blogging on Rick Steves
So...two websites are traveling in opposite directions on train tracks. If one is using a blog and traveling at the speed of Word of Mouth, and the other is traveling at the speed of Big Multi-Million…
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