travel
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Where Betty Byrne Lived
Story is an integral part of the city of Dublin. Bronze statues of beloved writers roam the landscape, immortal: Wilde lounges “languidly on a crag in the park at Merrion Square,” while Joyce is “depicted rather more severely in bronze, leaning on his cane…
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TSA Employee Reveals Airport Security Secrets
…one of the officers in our class asked him to tell us, off the record, what he really thought about the machines. “They’re shit,” he said, shrugging. He said we wouldn’t be able to distinguish plastic explosives from body fat…
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Teju Cole on Lagos
When I’m in the US, I argue with those who think Lagos is too dangerous a place to visit….I’m less defensive about Lagos when I’m actually there. After a few days back home, I begin to accumulate irritations and fears…The…
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The Rumpus Interview with Pam Houston
Pam Houston discusses the art of travel, breaking down the barriers between fiction and memoir, biking across Canada, and continuing to write on the road—even after being bitten by a possibly-rabid dog while camping in the Gobi Desert.
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Help Vela Celebrate Unsung Women Writers!
It’s rare for female writers to receive recognition when it’s due. In light of International Women’s Day, Vela Magazine is collecting suggestions for its “Great Nonfiction by Women” List. We want to know which women writers you like “best,” who…
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A Different Kind of Travel Writing
For a website about money and personal finances, The Billfold publishes some really heartfelt stories. This one, by Sarah Todd, is about the “just been slimed in my heart” feeling of realizing your passport has expired the day before you…
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Round Trip
Thinking my grandfather was from here deepened my experience of Plovdiv. I felt closer to the city, to the people, and to my own family.
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The Rumpus Interview with Andrew McCarthy
Andrew McCarthy, likely best known to you as a member of the iconic Brat Pack, with his roles in Pretty in Pink and St. Elmo’s Fire, has forged a second career as a travel writer. Out with a new memoir,…
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Kamehameha the Great
I used to think that I couldn’t lose anyone if I photographed them enough. – Nan Goldin
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Travelling With Tintin
Although I didn’t read them as a kid, I love the idea that Tintin comics, in the era before television, could act as travelogues for people curious about the world — and that they were pretty accurate, most of the…
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Books For The Summer Travel Itch
Now that it’s summertime, one in three people who shop at my bookstore are looking for travel guides, phrase books, travelogues or history books about some enticing destination. Yesterday a woman bought a Russian phrase book. I told her that…
