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• Video: Interview with Author Elizabeth Gilbert
  A thoughtful 20-minute interview with the “Eat, Pray, Love” author covering MFA programs and her novel-in-progress, which she refers to at one point as “another travel book.”
• Travel Story Hall of Fame: ‘The Lonely Planet Guide to My Apartment’
  Today we introduce the Travel Story Hall of Fame, an occasional series in which we honor the best in travel writing new and old. Title: The Lonely Planet Guide to My Apartment Author: Jonathan Stern Publication: The New Yorker Date: April 24, 2006 Nomination Speech: I first read Jonathan Stern’s Shouts and Murmurs piece in “The Best American Trav […]
• Dispatch from the Yukon Quest Trail
  I’m on the road this week, doing some writing and social media work for the Yukon Quest. For those unfamiliar with it, the Quest is a 1,000-mile sled dog race that runs from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Whitehorse, Yukon (my hometown). I’m following along, and on the trail with me is a traveling crowd of volunteers, veterinarians, race officials, […]
• 2012 Travel Writing Conferences
  Spring and summer are fast approaching, and that means warmer days, Major League Baseball and, yes, travel writing conferences. Gadling recently noted several upcoming conferences. Among them: Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) The annual travel blogger gathering created by Kim Mance lays claim to being “the world’s premiere and largest conference of tr […]
• NATJA Announces 2011 Winners
  The complete roster of North American Travel Journalists Association award winners was announced this week. National Geographic Traveler took the grand prize for top travel publication, while Andrew McCarthy and Jill Schensul were named the travel journalists of the year. Several World Hum contributors were also among the winners. Larry Bleiberg took Gold in […]
• ‘Downton Abbey’ and the Art of the English Library
  Like so many people, I’ve been glued to PBS’ “Downton Abbey” and the scheming and backstabbing unfolding in Highclere Castle. Here, series creator Julian Fellowes discusses his favorite room in the castle: the library. I love his take on it. The French have their drawing rooms. The Austrians have their ballrooms. Libraries, he says, a […]
• Looking for the Old Hippie Trail
  At Old World Wandering, Iain Manley has a long, worthwhile post on the classic overlander, mixing his personal experiences as a “novice traveller” on the route with a history of the trail’s literature, from “Across Asia on the Cheap” all the way back to the Romantics of the 1700. Here’s a taste: I knew something of the old […]
• Video: Eric Weiner on his new Book, ‘Man Seeks God’
  We recently published The Inner Nightclub of Everlasting Joy, an excerpt from Eric Weiner’s new book, Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine. Here’s Weiner discussing the book and his travels with Lisa Napoli earlier this month at a Live Talks Los Angeles event. It’s an engaging, humor-filled conversation. Eric Weiner in conversation […]
• A Street Corner in Paris
  Jeffrey Tayler had all but given up on the City of Light. Then he sat down at a Left Bank cafe.
• ‘Afterglobe,’ ‘Ingesticulate’ and 28 Other New Additions to the Travel Lexicon
  Andy Murdock has been brainstorming some much-needed new travel words. For instance, “comeuppants,” a noun for those times when “an obnoxious person loses their luggage and has no change of clothes.” Or “trambunctious,” possibly my favorite of the bunch, an adjective describing someone who is “overly excited by ridin […]