Tag: 9.11.01
Travel Editors Rethink Post-September 11 Stories
by Michael Yessis | 10.26.01 | 8:44 PM ET
Email to friend
del.icio.us
Digg
Facebook
Furl
Ma.gnolia
Mixx
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Yahoo! Buzz“I Saw Campbell’s Soup Being Eaten Straight From the Can on a Porch in Elk Grove Village”
by Michael Yessis | 10.24.01 | 8:46 PM ET
Aleksandar Hemon came to the United States from Sarajevo in the winter of 1992 to participate in a cultural-exchange program. He arrived with a love for American pop culture. “I fantasized about starting a band whose first album cover would be designed by Andy Warhol,” he writes in the October 15 issue of The New Yorker. “I imitated Holden Caulfield’s diction (in translation), and I manipulated my unwitting father into buying me a Charles Bukowski book for my seventeenth birthday.” The end of his trip coincided with the beginning of the war in Bosnia. Hemon stayed in the U.S., landing a job in suburban Chicago canvassing for Greenpeace. For two and a half years he went door-to-door, and his experiences form the backbone of an essay worth a trip the library (New Yorker archives are not available online). “After a while, my view of American culture changed,” he writes. “I began to understand the meaning of the Talking Heads’ songs, the anarchic pretentiousness of Altman’s movies…and the magnitude of America’s defeat in Vietnam.”
Telling Stories
by Michael Yessis | 10.20.01 | 8:50 PM ET
National Public Radio’s Savvy Traveler recently broadcast two stories of note. This week, residents of Gander, Newfoundland and passengers of Delta Flight 15, which was forced to land in remote Canada in the hours after hijacked planes hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Towers on September 11, tell their stories. The passengers of Flight 15 were stranded for four days, and locals turned out in droves to comfort them with hot showers and home-cooked meals. Previously, World Hum co-editor Jim Benning reported on an encounter with a Muslim man named Kenny in Malaysia. Kenny invited Jim to join him in a restaurant and told him he looks a little “like that American actor, that kung fu fighter.” Jim, who, for the record, looks quite unlike Chuck Norris, reluctantly joined him, and emerged with a renewed sense of why we travel.
Three From the Road
by Michael Yessis | 10.08.01 | 8:54 PM ET
The New York Times tripled its normal travel essay output this weekend with a trio of excellent pieces. Terrence Rafferty weighs in on the state of road movies. “When we’re not feeling free enough, we take to the road,” he writes. “That’s the mythology, anyway. But as I look at the recent onslaught of American road movies, arriving at the multiplexes with the regularity of big rigs pulling into truck stops, I can’t help wondering if it isn’t time to lay that seductive myth to rest.”
Sorrow in the Land of Smiles
by Jim Benning | 09.27.01 | 1:00 AM ET
On the streets of Bangkok Jim Benning faces a confounding reaction to the terrorist attack on America
In the Wake of September 11
by Michael Yessis | 09.19.01 | 9:01 PM ET
Several readers have passed along links to stories regarding the tragedy in the U.S. We’d like to share:
>> Dave McKenna writes in the Washington CityPaper about attending a soccer game in Rome just after the World Trade Towers were toppled.
>> New York Times writers Jane Fritsch and David Rohde follow the paper trail from the offices, tracking down the owners of resumes, bank records and cell phone statements that floated across the city and as far away as Brooklyn.
>> Sonya Ross of the Associated Press takes readers aboard Air Force One for U.S. President George W. Bush’s post-attack journey from Florida to Louisiana to Nebraska to Washington D.C.
>> In the International Herald Tribune, Roger Collis examines travel in the coming weeks, months and years.
>> In the New York Times, Anthony DePalma writes of his cross-country odyssey from San Diego to Newark in a rental car.
>> CNN’s Nic Robertson fled Afghanistan September 19. He writes about his last week there.
- « Prev Page
- Next Page »