August 31, 2005
Things you didn't really want to know about French cheese
For you travel-foodies who travel to France primarily to enjoy the cuisine, this outtake from the July 2005 issue of...Read this article
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August 30, 2005
Some tips on getting an agent for your travel book
[Above: Literary agent Sarah Jane Freymann talks to Paris American Academy students about the publishing business.] One of my...Read this article
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August 29, 2005
A comment about comments
It's now been about four months since I disabled the comments here at Vagablogging.net -- and I think I'm going...Read this article
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August 26, 2005
The Hobart Travel Issue
The current issue of the literary journal Hobart is entirely devoted to travel fiction and nonfiction -- including an...Read this article
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August 25, 2005
The latest in Islamic swimwear
This swimwear line, which is no joke, reminds me of an old In Living Color sketch, wherein Islamist swimsuit...Read this article
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August 23, 2005
There's nothing necessarily wrong about being a tourist
"There's nothing necessarily wrong about being a tourist. A tourist is somebody who happens to be more interested in the...Read this article
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August 22, 2005
Some more notes on wiping your ass
A little over a year ago, I blogged a curious item from Esquire, wherein film director Barry Sonnenfeld sang the...Read this article
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August 19, 2005
Time abroad can be more formative than formal education
I recently got an email from Jordan Mendenhall of North Carolina (who is currently living and working in Dublin), who...Read this article
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August 18, 2005
Thicker Than Water: New Gina Ochsner fiction in The New Yorker
A few months ago I blogged that my old college friend Gina Ochsner has just released her second collection of...Read this article
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August 17, 2005
David Downie's Paris, Paris book tour
Travel writer David Downie, who visited my Paris American Academy classes last month as a guest lecturer, will be...Read this article
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August 15, 2005
The more you write, the better you get at it
"No one can give you the magic bullet that, once fired, will make you a writer. Writing is like anything...Read this article
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August 12, 2005
"Ask Rolf" at the newly revamped WorldHum.com
Last month, my travel advice column, "Ask Rolf", debuted at the newly revamped World Hum website. This column is similar...Read this article
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August 10, 2005
Right-wingers getting racked
[Above: Karl Rove takes one for the team.] Kansas expat cartoonist Travis Millard recently published a mini-zine on Fudge...Read this article
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August 09, 2005
We have already beaten the biggest odds that we're ever going to face
"According to an article in The New Yorker, in the typical human sex act, the act that brought each of...Read this article
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August 08, 2005
Vagablogging.net in TIME Magazine
This blog (and my book Vagabonding) got a nice mention in both Time Europe and http://www.time.com/time/asia/tga/article/0,13673,501050808-1088774,00.html">Time Asia this week, thanks...Read this article
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August 07, 2005
New travel writing grants and contests
For those of you interested in funding your travels and getting published, here's a couple of new travel writing contest...Read this article
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August 05, 2005
On the road, people take you at face value
"If you travel, you escape being labeled with class stereotypes. I come from a very middle-class family of lawyers and...Read this article
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August 04, 2005
More views from the Paris writing workshop
[Above: Paris American Academy writing workshop students pose after the farewell banquet. Pictured are Dorothy Hui, Lauren Reynolds, Sara...Read this article
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August 03, 2005
Taras Grescoe at RolfPotts.com
My August interviewee at the RolfPotts.com Travel Writers page is Taras Grescoe, who has written travel articles for The Times,...Read this article
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August 02, 2005
New travel writing portal up at TransitionsAbroad.com
My (mostly) offline July in Paris has left me lagging behind on my general travel and travel-writing blogging, so today's...Read this article
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August 01, 2005
Too Deep For Children: A Memoir
Over the course of July's creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy, I had the pleasure of working on...Read this article
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