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2013 Book Passage Travel Writers & Photographers Conference 1 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
Travel publishing has undergone a transformation in recent years. Countless newspaper travel sections have shut down. Venerable guidebook publishers like Lonely Planet have wound up in the most unlike...
In the Abode of the Gods 10 Jul 2013 | 08:22 pm
Jeffrey Tayler treks a Buddhist pilgrimage route through China's remotest, high-altitude domains
Interview with Brendan I. Koerner: Love and Terror in ‘The Skies Belong to Us’ 2 Jul 2013 | 07:40 pm
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, hijackings in American skies were routine. Eva Holland talks to the author of a new book about one young couple's wild long-distance heist.
A Sort of Happy Ending 8 Jun 2013 | 10:34 pm
David Farley was 15 when his older brother took him to a strip club in Mexico to make him a man
The Atlantic: ‘How Learning a Foreign Language Reignited My Imagination’ 30 May 2013 | 04:56 pm
In the latest issue of The Atlantic, Ta-Nehisi Coates has a lovely short essay about traveling to Switzerland to study French, and the wonder of being immersed in the foreign: I started studying Fren...
Mapped: Bob Dylan’s Entire Repertoire 28 May 2013 | 04:48 pm
To celebrate Bob Dylan’s 72nd birthday, Slate has mapped every place the man ever mentioned in his music. Why, you ask? Once the amateur Dylanologist tries to think of some, they flood the brain. “I’...
Grantland Goes to the Iditarod 9 May 2013 | 04:09 pm
This past March, Grantland sent writer Brian Phillips to follow the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, Alaska’s famous 1000-mile feat of endurance, by bush plane. The resulting story, Out in the Great Alon...
New Travel Book: ‘The Turk Who Loved Apples’ 8 May 2013 | 05:30 pm
Veteran travel writer Matt Gross has just released his first book: The Turk Who Loved Apples, a collection of never-before-published stories about his life as a traveler. Gross is a former Frugal Trav...
Chaos in Airworld? The 1981 PATCO Strike 7 May 2013 | 05:00 pm
In the wake of last week’s sequester-driven air travel delays, Jalopnik looks back at a short-lived 1981 strike by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, better known as PATCO. It’s a ...
AFAR Goes to Coffeeland 25 Apr 2013 | 05:58 pm
In the latest AFAR, longtime World Hum contributor David Farley goes to the world’s caffeine heartland: Ethiopia. Here’s Farley: Coffee is to Ethiopia what hops are to Bohemia or grapes to Bordeaux. ...
