Q-and-A With Bill Bryson
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 08.15.05 | 11:05 PM ET
Yesterday’s Washington Post featured an interview with “Walk in the Woods” author Bill Bryson. What’s he up to? “I’m doing a book which is a kind of travel book,” he tells K.C. Summers, “except that it’s a memoir about growing up in the ‘50s in Iowa.” Go with it, Bill. We’re with you.
Tabb Farinholt 08.21.05 | 6:24 PM ET
I just finished reading (and thoroughly enjoyed) your Lost Continent, which of course you wrote 20 years ago so probably feel little responsibility for anymore; however I was struck by numerous inconsistencies, particularly that you make fun of Kentuckians for mispronouncing place-names of French origin—how about our pronunciation of Des Moines in the mouths of the original French settlers, it would be quite a different-sounding name!