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London Fields

by Martin Amis

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Dec 10, 2012 01:22AM

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Presocratics, The

by Philip Ellis Wheelwright

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Apr 03, 2012 04:34AM

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The Best American Travel Writing 2004

by Pico Iyer

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Will Mclaughlin said: " Reviewing as I go. Here are my take aways Romance- Not so much a travel piece as a memoir from the 20's-30's. interesting that Angell glosses over the fact that EB White is his stepdad. Test Day- Interesting story from a non traditional source.about Reviewing as I go. Here are my take aways Romance- Not so much a travel piece as a memoir from the 20's-30's. interesting that Angell glosses over the fact that EB White is his stepdad. Test Day- Interesting story from a non traditional source.about a teacher teaching English in Tanzania. It's always amazing to me what isolated cultures think about America. "Is it true you're all given a gun at 18?"
Monuments...- Pretty tepid and overly sentimental piece about DC monuments. Read like a high school book report about the safety patrol trip.
Accidental Explorer...- I'm sure this trip was harrowing and dangerous, but it was really hard to get it across without seeing it Screenwriter's Vacation- Comedy piece about a screenwriter thinking about his vacation as a screenplay. Funny at points. Ahead of the joke most of the time. Canadian Gothic- A history and travelogue of Nova Scotia. Informative without being pedantic History Lesson- A thankfully short Joan Didion piece about a house, in Paris where a woman in ww2, blah blah blah... Under The Sheltering Sky- Traces über traveller Paul Bowles haunts in Tangier. Strange in that Bowles chronicled the place itself while this story chronicles the place only because Paul Bowles and company slept here. Sandbags...- The cute guy I fucked on my vacation. This is horrible. If a man wrote a story like this it would be derided as sexist. Kashmiri Extremism- Interesting story about how terrorism is effecting the skiing business in Pakistan. Who knew there was such an industry? Segways in paris- tad friend and his wife ride through paris on these devices that were novel in 2004. I don't think anyone will remember this story in twenty years The People On The Bus- I find it hard to believe that New Yorker writer/editor Adam Gopnik rides the bus to work everyday. Innocents Abroad- focuses on a Tieppolo fresco in a church in Wurzburg. This story could also be titled "I've read a lot of books." Facing Famine- Ethiopians are still starving and impoverished. Nothing's changed. Chasing The Wall- Most tourists see the Great Wall from a nice photo op spot near Beijing. Hessler followed the wall through the impoverished and ignored villages of China and Mongolia. Really great story. And stop saying The Great Wall can be seen from the moon! There's no evidence. The Ghost Road- This guy is either lying or insane. Mark Jenkins reads about a supply road that was built during ww2 by the US then abandoned due to the war's conclusion. He wants to travel this road. Problem is part of it is in unfriendly Myanmar.This reads like a clichéd action movie but its amazing if its true. Three Cups of Tea has jaded me. Wrong Side...- I'd like to visit this part of South Africa some day. But this story felt like a "we got here before it was cool" tale. Small World- Interesting in that it was written in 2004. Now it seems like every other magazine article is about eating local and how Clear Channel will own us all. ...more "

Jan 02, 2013 04:13AM · see review

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