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What We Loved This Week: Tijuana Art, Canadian Road Tripping, The New Yorker’s Food Issue and More
by World Hum | 11.20.09 | 5:11 PM ET
Photo by Jim Benning Rolf Potts
On Tuesday I traveled to Metuchen, New Jersey, for a reading at The Raconteur Bookshop. It was the first time I’ve read publicly from Where No Travel Writer Has Gone Before, and I recruited audience members to read the Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Uhura lines from the fantasy sequence in Part Two. They did great, and the whole reading proved quite a hoot.
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Yahoo! BuzzWhat We Loved This Week: Fog in Virginia, the Northern Lights and a Hungarian Drum Solo
by World Hum | 11.13.09 | 4:47 PM ET
Jim Benning
I loved weather. Call me crazy, but I get tired of all the sunshine and mild temperatures in San Diego. This week, I’ve been enjoying the rain and cold in Washington, D.C. (Yes, I realize I might be the only one.)
What We Loved This Week: ‘Up in the Air,’ Mariachi and ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’
by World Hum | 11.06.09 | 5:20 PM ET
Eva Holland
I loved buying my first car. I’ve been plotting a trans-Canada road trip/relocation, from Ontario up to the Yukon, and now—with my tentative start date just 10 days away—I’ve got the wheels to make it happen.
World Hum Goes to the Travel Blog Exchange ‘10
by Michael Yessis | 11.02.09 | 12:12 PM ET
We’ll be communing with our fellow travel writers and bloggers in New York City June 26-27, 2010, at the second annual Travel Blog Exchange. Founder Kim Mance and her crew launched TBEX last July in Chicago with a memorable day of travel talk.
Next year, the event spans two days and World Hum, one of the event’s media partners, is on the organizing committee. We’re working with Kim and several others in the travel blog universe to help develop the event, and we’ll also be preaching the Travel Writing in the Digital Age gospel with a small taste of our new workshops. If you’ve got any thoughts, suggestions, etc. about what you’d like to see covered, please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
What We Loved This Week: Calexico, Toronto FC in Coach and more
by World Hum | 10.30.09 | 5:25 PM ET
Eva Holland
After years of listening to other people’s celebrity-on-a-plane stories, I finally had my own in-flight star-spotting: I shared my flight home from New York City last weekend with the coaches and players from Toronto FC. Who knew pro athletes sometimes fly coach with the masses?
Follow World Hum’s Contributors on Twitter
by Eva Holland | 10.30.09 | 3:21 PM ET
If you “tweet” (yeah, yeah, I know) then you’ve probably heard about Twitter’s new lists function—it allows users to organize their favorite tweeters into themed feeds, which other users can then choose to follow. We’ve created a list of World Hum contributors; feel free to follow along, and let us know if we missed anyone.
What We Loved This Week: Discarded Neon, Hemingway in Idaho and ‘The Places in Between’
by World Hum | 10.23.09 | 4:43 PM ET
Pam Mandel
The Neon Boneyard: Two fenced lots north of the Las Vegas strip hold an amazing collection of decaying giant typography. The Neon Museum has big plans to restore a Googie-style clamshell building as their visitor’s center, but for now, the signs sit gathering dust and frustrating camera happy modernists for whom the one hour tour is way too short.
What We Loved This Week: The High Line, Kogi Tacos and a Ball of Twine
by World Hum | 10.16.09 | 4:43 PM ET
Photo by Frank Bures Eva Holland
I finally checked out the High Line, New York’s new(ish) elevated park, and I loved it. The creative-by-necessity use of space in this city, and the effort to sneak some greenery into any available corner, is one of my favorite things about it.
What We Loved This Week: Porter Airlines, Dave Eggers and More
by World Hum | 10.09.09 | 4:22 PM ET
Photo by Jenna Schnuer Eva Holland
I loved flying Porter Airlines and, before take-off, relaxing in Porter’s free passenger lounge at Toronto City Centre Airport. A smooth operation, friendly staff, and free snacks—it was a pleasant reminder that air travel doesn’t have to be a succession of minor inconveniences and discomforts.
Celebrating ‘The Best American Travel Writing’ in NYC
by Eva Holland | 10.09.09 | 2:49 PM ET
I made it to the launch party for The Best American Travel Writing 2009 last night at Manhattan’s Idlewild Books. Series editor Jason Wilson was there, along with this year’s guest editor, Simon Winchester—who read from what he described as his “preachy” introduction on the importance of teaching geography. (Preachy or not, I think it’s a point worth making.) Contributors Elisabeth Eaves, Matthew Power and Andre Aciman also read from their essays in the anthology, a few bottles of wine were emptied, and—if I can have a preachy moment of my own—it was nice to see, despite the ongoing litany of bad news, that a book of literary travel essays can still draw a crowd.
As for the anthology itself? I haven’t gotten deeply into it yet, but it looks like another good one. Regular World Hum contributors Frank Bures and Eric Weiner both have stories included, while four World Hum stories—from Katie Krueger, Julia Ross, Emily Stone and Jeffrey Tayler—are among this year’s additional notable selections.
‘The Best American Travel Writing’ in New York City
by Eva Holland | 10.06.09 | 9:49 AM ET
The Best American Travel Writing 2009 has landed in stores, and, for anyone in the New York area, there are a couple of upcoming events celebrating the release.
First up, Idlewild Books is hosting a launch party this Thursday, October 8, at 7 p.m. Several contributors to the 2009 edition will be reading, including guest editor Simon Winchester and World Hum contributor Elisabeth Eaves. You can RSVP to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Later this month, there will be an installment of the Restless Legs Reading Series devoted to the anthology. It’ll take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 21, at Lolita Bar—series editor Jason Wilson will host, and World Hum contributors Elisabeth Eaves, Tony Perrottet and Frank Bures will be reading.
I’ll be attending both and hope to see you there.
What We Loved This Week: Chicago, Ken Burns and Sundarbans National Park
by World Hum | 10.02.09 | 5:57 PM ET
Photo by Joanna Kakissis Michael Yessis
Chicago. I’m here through the weekend, and I can feel the sadness in the air about the city losing its bid for the 2016 Olympics. But just remember, Chicagoans, you’ve got plenty to get you through the disappointment. Just one reminder: a classic video I loved this week.
What We Loved This Week: Kira Salak, ‘The Perfect Baja Road Trip’ and a Postcard from Argentina
by World Hum | 09.25.09 | 5:37 PM ET
Eva Holland
Finding some Banks beer in an Ontario liquor store. The Barbados brewery has started exporting to select areas in Canada, and while it’s certainly not the greatest beer I’ve ever tasted, coming across the familiar label—and then bringing a few home and cracking one open—did bring me back to my last trip to the island.
What We Loved This Week: Old Souvenirs, ‘Moon Belize’ and Granta’s Chicago Issue
by World Hum | 09.18.09 | 10:24 PM ET
Michael Yessis
Granta’s Chicago issue. I got my hands on a copy last weekend at the Brooklyn Book Festival, and loved what I’ve been able read so far, including stories by Don DeLillo and Aleksander Hemon, and Roger Ebert’s online-only piece A Bar on North Avenue. Also pretty great: Chris Ware’s cover:
What We Loved This Week: Son Jarocho, the Ottawa Public Library and the BBC’s ‘World of Business’
by World Hum | 09.11.09 | 4:33 PM ET
Photo by Terry Ward
Terry Ward
Learning to love sharks in Palau. I spent four days aboard the Ocean Hunter III liveaboard, diving Palau’s outer reefs. On every dive, we spotted multiple sharks—grey reefs, white tips and black tips. Unlike at some Caribbean spots, there’s no feeding needed to get the guys to gather here. The water was literally clouded with reef fish and schooling pelagics. Clipped with a reef hook to the edge of the drop offs, swaying in the current and watching the sharks materialize from the blue to skirt the coral walls, gave me a new admiration for the ocean’s top predator.
What We Loved This Week: Palau, the O.C. and the National Aquarium Through a Child’s Eyes
by World Hum | 09.04.09 | 4:26 PM ET
Photo by Michael Yessis Eva Holland
I came home to Ottawa this week just in time to discover a new brewpub, Les Brasseurs du Temps, across the river in Gatineau, Quebec. The new spot is in a resurrected 1821 brewery building, and the house-brewed ales are delicious. I’m already plotting a second visit.
What We Loved This Week: Stockholm, ‘District 9’ and Bernstorffstraßenfest in Hamburg
by World Hum | 08.28.09 | 5:24 PM ET
Photo by Eva Holland Eva Holland
Stockholm. I was in town for an absurdly brief weekend visit—my first to Scandinavia—and I spent all the hours I could spare just wandering from island to island. Here’s one of my favorite shots:
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From Our Contributors: Vintage Hogs, Advice for Writers and The Introvert’s Corner
by World Hum | 08.28.09 | 1:37 PM ET
Some more link love for our contributors, who’ve been cropping up all over the web in recent days.
- In The Faster Times, David Farley reveals how his search for the Holy Foreskin resulted in a used-car curse.
- Alexander Basek visits Steve McQueen’s dirt bike, and other vintage motorcycles, in Miami, Oklahoma.
- Joanna Kakissis looks back at a lifetime of meze in Greece and the Dakotas—and provides some recipes, too.
- In the Oregonian, Frank Bures shares some advice for aspiring travel writers.
- Sophia Dembling, who confessed to her status as an introverted traveler and then provided some tips for her peers here on World Hum, is now blogging in The Introvert’s Corner over at Psychology Today.
What We Loved This Week: The Moth Podcast, David Sedaris and More
by World Hum | 08.21.09 | 3:57 PM ET
Our contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days:
Eva Holland
I love a good summer thunderstorm, and I got caught in a doozy this week in New York City, while on my way to meet a friend on the Upper West Side. It was the best lightning show I’d seen in years.
The New Yorker Talks Travel and the Holy Foreskin With David Farley
by Eva Holland | 08.10.09 | 4:57 PM ET
The interview is over at the Book Bench blog. Farley also spilled his tips on how to write a bad travel story recently for World Hum.
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