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                                                may 4, 2006
reviewz:
the new issue of Perceptive Travel features pieces by Ayun Halliday, Susan Griffith, and Lori Hein, among others. Oh yeah, and a couple book reviews by me.

                                                may 3, 2006
the skillz:
richard goodman, author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France, will be teaching a one-day seminar on how to promote your writing. Self promotion is a skill that's become just as important as writing itself, and few writing classes directly touch upon it. Saturday, June 3 at the West Side YMCA. $90.

ten years on...:
after a ten-year absence, aaron hamburger has returned to Prague, the setting for his acclaimed short story collection, The View from Stalin's Nose. Aaron also contributed a great piece for Travelers' Tales Prague. Read about his trip back to the Czech capital here.

                                                april 30, 2006

this season's vacation:
in today's London Guardian, Jeroen Bergmans, editor of Wallpaper*, wants to school you on why you're just an un-hip, soccer shirt-wearing middle-class wanker. This essay by Simon Mills explores the planet's ever-changing hip place to be. Ibiza is the new Provence (and that's not a good thing), Puglia is the new Tuscany, and Goa is just gone. The main sign that you favorite destination is no longer cool: seeing that big orange plane with EasyJet scrawled across the wings.

in other news, Thomas Swick, travel editor at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, finally answers the question we've been asking ourselves for years while traveling: why are there so many fucking Germans here?!

                                                april 28, 2006
welcome to Electric LarryLand:
Larry Habegger, Executive Editor at Travelers' Tales, all around nice guy, and a quasi-Alan Alda look-a-like, is going to be teaching a travel essay writing course...in Turkey...on a yacht. Dig, if you will, the picture: lounging on a luxury ship just off the azure-colored Turkish coastline, chomping on figs, sipping wine, and reminding yourself to take notes as Larry talks about what makes a good travel essay (and trust me: he knows). There are only a few spots left. Get more info here.

farley has (almost) left the building:
few may have noticed, but I haven't been posting on here in ages. Trying to do publicity for Travelers' Tales Prague and getting ready for my next long adventure (in Italy, starting in July), has left with little time to post stuff here. But I'm back (I hope)....