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Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.29.06 | 2:24 PM ET
Thirty years ago in London, a copy of V.S. Pritchett’s “Foreign Faces” landed him one important date.
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 09.29.06 | 2:24 PM ET
Thirty years ago in London, a copy of V.S. Pritchett’s “Foreign Faces” landed him one important date.
Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.
Twenty years ago, Frank Bures chatted with a young Alex Garland about his travel novel,...
Ivana Waz left Serbia for America when she was 14. She returned to her homeland with her son to answer the question: Was she more Serbian or American?
After being turned away from the school choir, Lavinia Spalding lost her love of public singing. Then she moved to South Korea.
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