"There are definitive stories about nearly every place on Earth now. And with so many other ways to get information -- if you want to know about Albania, for example, you can now much more easily ask the Albanians -- the point of travel writing has fallen out. There's an increased pressure on travel writers...

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...

Over at Flyover America , the old traveler's conundrum was brought up. Do you go back to a place you know and love, or do you continue your exploration of the world? With limited time and money, it seems you have to make a choice. But when you find a place that affects you in...