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Don George Agrees–Fiction Makes Travel Literature

Destination: Everywhere

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Book: Better than Fiction: True Travel Tales from Great Fiction Writers, edited by Don George

Lonely Planet and Don George have a thing going.  This is the seventh book George has edited for the company.  Don George, in case you have not met, writes just about the best travel articles you could wish for. He used to be the editor of the travel section for the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle. He reviews travel books and writes and edits for websites. And he stuffed all that experience in a book,  Lonely Planet Travel Writing, that everyone says is the best of the many guides for travel writers. Continue reading Don George Agrees–Fiction Makes Travel Literature

A House of Mirrors

A WEEK of Books About Writing and Publishing

Note: It just happens that three books landed on my reading pile that deal quite prominently with writing, reading, and publishing. So it seemed logical to group them together this week.

Destination: Spain and Argentina


Book: All Men Are Liars (NEW June 2012) by Alberto Manguel

Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain
Plaza Mayor, Madrid, Spain

Complex, intriguing, mysterious, intellectual, playful.  In All Men Are Liars, the writer Alberto Manguel (usually identified as Argentian) elicits all these reactions. Continue reading A House of Mirrors

Reviews of Guides to Vietnam and Argentina

This just in: A couple of my travel tips are included with this collection of tips on trip planning at Wandering Educators.

Going to Vietnam? How about Argentina? National Geographic Traveler has new guidebooks on those two countries (revised Vietnam, brand new Argentina) and I review them for my friends at Indie Travel Podcast.

Now read on for a guide to a different kind of road trip on the U.S. Mother Road.