Time Magazine’s 100 List Includes Elizabeth Gilbert, Cuban Blogger

Travel Blog  •  Julia Ross  •  05.05.08 | 9:58 AM ET

imageWill the” Eat, Pray, Love” madness never stop? Time magazine has selected Elizabeth Gilbert as one of its 100 World’s Most Influential People, along with the likes of Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama. Frankly, I was more interested in another Time pick: Yoani Sánchez, who works in Cuba’s tourism industry, once wrote a dissertation entitled “Dictatorships in Latin American Literature” and blogs about daily life in the country, apparently uncensored. If only I read Spanish.

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Tags: Caribbean, Cuba, Life of a Travel Writer

Julia Ross is a Washington, DC-based writer and frequent contributor to World Hum. She has lived in China and Taiwan, where she was a Fulbright scholar and Mandarin student. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, Time, Christian Science Monitor, Plenty and other publications. Her essay, Six Degrees of Vietnam, was shortlisted for "The Best American Travel Writing 2009."


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