Pico Iyer on Tour for Sun After Dark
Pico Iyer's new book, Sun After Dark: Flights into the Foreign (Knopf) comes out this week. From Knopf's book page: Pico Iyer – one of our most compelling and profoundly provocative travel writers –…
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1321 postsIs It A Trip, Or Is It A Writing Class?
You be the judge. IgoUgo has teamed up with Media Bistro to sell a travel writing class in Provence. Travel Writing in Provence Dates:May 8-15, 2004 Price: $1,780 (double); $1,978 (single) For all that…
Read more →A Humorous Bit on Fact checkers
If you hate having your articles fact checked, you'll enjoy this piece by Florence King: "First, we kill all the fact checkers" Personally, I would love to have a fact checking slave who runs both sides…
Read more →Submitting to the NYT Travel Section
We've recently had an interesting discussion about the Travel section at the New York Times. I appreciate those of you who read it regularly and chimed in to give your take. When I emailed them for…
Read more →New Africa Guide Accepting Submissions
Africa lovers - Here's a travel writing outlet that's hot off the press. The new Zamunda guide on BootsnAll.com. It is a brand new blog about this year's hottest travel destination in Africa.…
Read more →Mixed Feelings About a NYT Travel Article
Yesterday I picked up the Sunday Travel section. It was folded in half and a headline on the bottom half had caught my eye. "Rome: A Big Easter Basket: a season from prayer, music and shopping" I'm in…
Read more →My New Ideas Book
I must be operating on a handful of notebooks right now. Varying sizes. A few that fit in my front pocket. A larger one for a journal that'll probably only last a week. A few midsized pocketbooks that…
Read more →Question for you
What do you all think about photos on websites, blogs, and books? I don't have my photo on my website or WR because I don't like judging content by someone's looks and I wouldn't want them to do it to me.…
Read more →Travel Writing for Vacation Rental Lovers
To me, e-margaux.com falls in the category of a PR/Travel agent-ey website done by someone who genuinely likes the idea of travel. The writing they are asking for will glorify your travel emails normally…
Read more →Moleskinerie.com
Moleskinerie is a new blog that I think is cool. It's kinda like 1000 Journals had sex with McSweeny's. I found them because they came to me , but that's not why I like them. I dig them for their cool…
Read more →Van Gogh Was a Writer
I went to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam this weekend. I am always inspired to look at an artist's life in retrospect. They break it up by years, or when I saw Monet -- geographical moves, and when I…
Read more →Who Do I Thank?
I think I need to thank the almighty Google gods at BootsnAll.com. Sean, Chris, Nick... WrittenRoad.com is now the number one item by page rank in Google's "Arts|Writers Resources|Non-Fiction|Travel…
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