“All Writing is Travel Writing”
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 10.08.04 | 7:07 PM ET
In the September issue of Harper’s—sorry, we got a little behind in our magazine reading—Nicholas Delbanco, in his essay “Anywhere Out of This World,” makes a compelling case for the oft-denigrated genre of travel writing. He writes: “In the Western tradition of literature, the common denominator of the ‘Odyssey’ and ‘Pilgrim’s Progress,’ ‘The Canterbury Tales’ and ‘The Divine Comedy’—not to mention ‘Don Quixote’ or ‘Moby Dick’ or ‘Faust’—is near-constant motion.” I recommend the essay for anyone who can dig up a copy (it’s unavailable online), but one thing about it makes me curious: The excuse for Delbanco’s five-and-a-half page piece is a “review” of Pico Iyer’s “Sun After Dark,” which, by my count, he touches on in just one paragraph.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
