Anthony Bourdain is a tourist dork
[Above: The offending ad.] OK, I'm sure Anthony Bourdain isn't really a tourist dork, but I do take issue...Read this article
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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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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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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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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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A few notes on Third World urban slums
The following recently appeared in the "Readings" section of Harper's: PLANET OF SLUMS Adapted from an essay by Mike Davis,...Read this article
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Men's Journal: How to Take a Year Off
You don't often see mainstream magazines touting the virtues of vagabonding, so it's encouraging to see that this month's Men's...Read this article
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Gulag reality tours in Croatia?
The following comes from the "Readings" section in the June 2005 issue of Harper's: [Renovation] SET A COURSE FOR INDENTURE...Read this article
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Elite travel in the year 2020
The Australian Financial Review recently dedicated an issue to musings about the future, calling on various pundits, futurists, and consultants...Read this article
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The Road Less Traveled: The Future of Travel
The Road Less Traveled By Peter Huck "One only has to look at the past to judge the direction élite...Read this article
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A primer for paying bribes in Russia
The following comes from the "Readings" section in the May 2005 issue of Harper's: [Etiquette] GETTING TO DA From Russian...Read this article
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I Always Thanked a Cowboy Jesus That...Michael Jackson Was My Dog
Just a quick note to say that the current issue of the literary journal http://www.fencemag.com/">Fence contains a short story by...Read this article
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Mongolia: What's in a name?
The following list of names, which recently appeared in Harper's, caught my eye because I've come across similar names in...Read this article
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Anywhere Out of This World
The essay below appears in this month's Harper's. I'll comment on it later. ANYWHERE OUT OF THIS WORLD On why...Read this article
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Pointers on writing an unoriginal story
The following riff on the cliches of creative writing (and science fiction writing in particular) was featured in the "Readings"...Read this article
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Gina Ochsner fiction in The New Yorker
I was happy to discover this morning that my college classmate Gina Ochsner has a piece of fiction in the...Read this article
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It's Mother Goose gone wild!
The "Readings" section of the August Harper's contains a selection of ribald children's songs from around the world. I've listed...Read this article
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A Marine Corps primer on cultural sensitivity in Arab lands
The following appeared in the "Readings" section of Harper's in June of 2004. I find it interesting (and encouraging, actually)...Read this article
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The 25 hottest weblog entries about lists
One of the most perplexing trends in magazine journalism in recent years is the tendency to categorize service articles into...Read this article
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A few notes on wiping your ass
It is commonly known that travelers, when thrown together overseas for extended periods of time, will eventually start to obsess...Read this article
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