World Hum: “A Virtual Library of Beginner Travel Writing”?

Welcome to the site The New York Times just heralded as “a virtual library of beginner travel writing.” We appreciate the mention, but beginner? Among the “beginner” travel writers now featured on World Hum’s front page are novelist Porter Shreve, author of the New York Times Notable Book “The Obituary Writer” and a contributor to the New York Times Sophisticated Traveler; Rolf Potts, whose stories have appeared in Salon, National Geographic Traveler and Houghton Mifflin’s “The Best American Travel Writing”; and Terry Ward, whose travel writing has been published in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times Magazine. For beginners, they’re not doing half bad. Regardless, enjoy the tales.

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