Is this article a calendar of adventure hunks or another reason to spend next month's rent at a bookstore? Literary All Stars Hampton Sides. Hello. Where's my bookie? My money says this is his pen name.…
Read more →The New York Times Book Review covered travel lit today. And they talked about the travel writing profession. "Happily, the choice of literary guides is expanding, and some recent books have broadened the…
Read more →This news item just in... "Radio producer Kathryn Ketman and KUSF , Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Left Coast Writers , and Book Passage are teaming up to kick off an exotic new music and travel writing…
Read more →Current Reads: Rough Guide: First-Time Around the World by Doug Lansky Movie this week: 0 Song I get excited to hear: Picture Book by the Kinks Pitches I took back: 4 Assignments: 0 Potentially life…
Read more →In doing that last post on Jonathan Raban, I discovered that the Third Place Books website shows how many books are in stock on the catalog page. And from my history of being on several indie bookstore…
Read more →The highly acclaimed Jonathan Raban will be at one of my favorite event stops, Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park, just outside of Seattle. What: Author event for the paperback release of Waxwings…
Read more →Before I go hit the precor and try to rack up my gym count for weekly stats, I wanted to share with you the last bit on the Nick Earls interview . "Yes, I still run whenever it's feasible, and I miss it…
Read more →When I was in Australia in 2001, I might've read every Nick Earls book he had out then. If I hadn't done that last post on the Book TV bloggers I wouldn't have gone over to Book Ninja , and then I…
Read more →I saw this yesterday on Anthem Blog WHAT THE BLOG? A talk show taping for BookTV, hosted by Dennis Loy Johnson of Moby Lives , and featuring some of the Internet's top literary bloggers: Maud Newton Jessa…
Read more →I was out with Jim, his wife Leslie, and Rolf last week. Yeah, when we're together we talk about travel books, travel writers, travel, but all sorts of other stuff that non travel writers talk about, too.…
Read more →So, there are probably a gazillion, or at least a few hundred writing residency programs out there. I'm not talking about grad school, more like retreat places that you either pay/get fellowships for. You…
Read more →What do you call it when you find something online that you haven't seen before? And then what's the word for when a blogger posts about something so outdated? I just Googled Tim Cahill and found this Q&A…
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