What’s More Interesting, Writing About Science or Travel?

That was just one of the questions posed to Bill Bryson by Guardian newspaper readers recently. How did the author of a book about hiking the Appalachian Trail respond? “The thing I really enjoy about my existence, my work, is the variety of it. I did a science book as a break from travel writing, but I’d be happy at some point to go back to it - or equally to go off and doing something else entirely. I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that was the most pleasurable part of the science book. So - not writing the same kind of book over and over again is to me the real pleasure of what I do.” Also: Bryson told the BBC he’s working on a memoir about growing up in the 1950s and a biography of William Shakespeare, and that he’d like to do more travel writing, perhaps about Japan and the Far East.

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