Travel Blog • World Hum • 05.16.08 | 6:57 PM ET
Our five most popular features and blog posts this week:
1) In Patagonia, In Patagonia (pictured)
2) Promised Land Closed: Audio Slide Show
3) Should I Quit Law School so I Can Travel the World?
4) On the Occasional Importance of a Ceiling Fan
5) ‘7 Tourist Traps You Love’? Um, Not so Much.
Back to The Beach: A Lost Interview with Alex Garland
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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John M. Edwards 05.17.08 | 5:44 PM ET
Hi Worldhum:
I’m always interested in what is “most read.” I believe more people have read “War and Peace” than “Remembrance of Things Past.”
No offense to Tolstoy or Proust, but I’d rather read my own writing. If you haven’t read something you’ve written for a couple of years, and it’s in print, it almost feels like someone else wrote it, I guess (considering you wasted days, weeks, sometimes months revising it—to get it just exacterly right).
My friend Senior Hausing doesn’t believe in revision. Whatever the Muse sends him is meant to be as soon as Mont Blanc pen hits paper or dainty index finger alights on I.
I have a serious travel bug called “sour grapes.”
I’m interested. Roughly how many hits a day does Worldhum get? It could be millions!!!!!!
John M. Edwards