While striving to become a travel writer in the years after Watergate, Thomas Swick discovered that although writing for a newspaper was educational, there was more to be learned through romance with a foreigner.
travel writing
Posted inNonfiction, Story
Lost in Backcountry Corsica
When two Irish travelers take hiking advice from a supposed guide, they soon find themselves relying on their wits in the dark.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes
Albania’s Blood Feuds
In northern Albania, vengeance is justice, but does it get people something besides more pain?
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Quotes
In Guatemala on the Wrong Bus
Sarah Miller travels in exactly the way she’d hoped to avoid.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
A Personal Odyssey Through Florida’s Varied Regions
Jason Diamond road trips from Jacksonville to Key West trying to get a handle on the state where much of his family has settled.
Posted inEditor's Pick
Finding My Florida
A region-by-region travelogue of Jason Diamond’s road trip through the Sunshine State. Driving through Florida from top to bottom helps Diamond better understand a state with a variety of image problems—a state everyone else in his family eventually migrated to—and the ways in which he might and might not have fit in if he’d ever […]
Posted inNonfiction, Travel
Travel Writing for Americans Who Stay Home
An editor reflects on a career in travel writing, even as Americans travel less and are exposed to less diversity.
Posted inBlog Post, Quotes
Pittsburgh, Listed
“Travel writing, like pop music, abhors a vacuum,” Michael Meyer, author of several books on travel and associate professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh, wrote in an email to City Paper. “There always has to be The Next Place to Go, or the Best City You’ve Never Heard Of. If it’s not Baltimore or Greenpoint or St. Paul, then it’s Pittsburgh.”
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Most Listable City
Alex Gordon surveys 150 years of writing about Pittsburgh and whether or not this type of boosterish frivolity helps the city’s residents — specifically people of color