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As I announced earlier this year, I will once again be teaching a creative nonfiction workshop at the Paris American Academy during the month of July (this Paris workshop also entails fiction and journal-writing classes, taught by novelists John Biguenet and Lauren Grodstein).
New to my teaching slate in 2010 is an intensive travel-writing workshop in Reykjavik, Iceland from August 1-8. Organized … Read more »
Since I seem to have fallen behind on updating my Events page, I wanted to announce that I’ll be giving a travel presentation in the Dallas area this weekend as part of the Irving Chautauqua series at the Irving Public Library. The event starts at 2 p.m. on Saturday, February 13 at the Central Library, 801 W. Irving Blvd. The program is free and open to all ages.
Other venues that will … Read more »
Rolf poses with one his favorite travel-writing role-models, adventure scribe Tim Cahill, at Northern California’s Book Passage Conference in August
Toward the end of each year I usually post a round-up of my travel highlights from the previous 12 months. This year I’ve been diligent enough with additions to the “Rolf’s News and Updates” category that … Read more »
Back in September I traveled to rural Wales for the excellent DO Lectures series, which features talks and presentations by cutting-edge experts from a wide variety of disciplines — from mountaineers to sustainable architects to graphic designers. I spoke on vagabonding and the ethic of long-term travel, and video from that lecture is now available online. My talk is in keeping with similar presentations I’ve done for my Vagabonding and Read more »
Just a quick heads-up to let everyone know I have a 5-part travel series appearing online at World Hum this week. Entitled “Where No Travel Writer Has Gone Before,” it documents my experience on a Star Trek-themed sea-cruise to Bermuda. What’s it like to travel the earth with people who’d rather be in outer space? Find out by reading the series, which will appear in episodic installments each day this week. A video … Read more »
[Rolf and Kansas first lady Stacy Parkinson at the Kansas Book Awards in Topeka.]
A year after its initial publication, my book Marco Polo Didn’t Go There has started to receive some awards at the state, national, and international level. A few weeks ago I mentioned that it had received a Kansas Book Award; now, … Read more »
Part I: Rolf reads from Marco Polo Didn’t Go There
Over on my RolfPotts.com video page, I recently uploaded a two-part video of my July 2009 reading at Shakespeare & Co. Bookstore in Paris. I’ve informally read essays there in the past (alongside students from my annual writing workshop at the Paris American Academy) but this is the first time I’ve done an official event for the bookstore’s Monday-evening reading … Read more »
Next month I’ll be a speaker and panelist at the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference, which takes place just north of San Francisco, in Corte Madera, California. The conference runs from August 13-16, and features such travel-writer luminaries as Tim Cahill, Isabel Allende, Don George, Pauline Frommer, Jim Benning, Jen Leo, Linda Watanabe McFerrin, Amanda Jones, Larry … Read more »
Recent weeks have seen me travel out to Bermuda for World Hum, across Kansas for The Believer, and off to Russia for Afar; articles about these experiences will debut in coming months. Here’s what else has been going on for me in the travel-publishing world:
My Italian publisher, Ponte alle Grazie, recently sent me the cover art for Marco Polo non ci e … Read more »
Having just returned home after traveling to Russia on assignment for Afar Magazine, I realize it’s been awhile since I’ve blogged about my newest essays and interviews. Here’s what I’ve been up to, writing-wise, in recent weeks:
One of my favorite essays of late was Che: The Ronald McDonald of Revolution, which I wrote … Read more »