19th century travel tips that may again come in handy
“The best travel writing usually begins with an absurd proposition.” Collins on How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day.
“The best travel writing usually begins with an absurd proposition.” Collins on How to See Europe on Fifty Cents a Day.
Granta’s Fathers issue includes nine writers’ recollections of their fathers. For Granta.com, the magazine has invited newer writers, including Jim Shepard, Gary Shteyngart, Rabih Alameddine, lê thi diem thúy, and me, to reflect on a photo of their dad. My contribution is up today; here’s the first paragraph: Exactly how long the prostitute, unbeknownst to my father, stayed at our . . .
“Water towers occupy such a striking place in the Southern imagination because the landscape is so flat,” says Donna Tartt. (Here’s Minter City’s.)
At Daily Beast’s new books site, I recommend reading my friend Kate Christensen’s backlist before her new novel, Trouble, appears.
One of the delights of this website, and one of the things that continues to surprise me even now, after nearly seven years of blogging, is the email from readers far more knowledgeable than I am. Very late Tuesday night I posted a clip of an old Simone de Beauvoir interview about The Coming of Age, and wished aloud (okay, . . .