Travel Writing

pen4hire on May 14th, 2010

Announcement: We have the Third and the Fourth Winners in the Great Big Travel Literature GiveawayII: Christa Joy has selected The Invisible Mountain. Rebecca Waer has selected Lobster Chronicles. Don’t despair–seven more prizes to go plus four grand prizes. Destination: The Whole World Books for the Travel Library: The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World…Via Its [...]

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pen4hire on May 7th, 2010

A radio show with some big name travel writers discussing travel writing. 100 Travel Novels

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pen4hire on December 2nd, 2009

The 2nd edition of the Indie Travel Podcast Magazine arrived December 1.  This issue is even better than the first issue, and that is quite an accomplishment. Craig and Linda Martin, the ever-traveling, ever-creative New Zealanders, have outdone themselves.

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pen4hire on September 20th, 2009

William Dalrymple cuts loose on the subject of travel writing in the Guardian There I was wondering what on earth I could write about for my 200th POST, when my Blackberry blinked and buzzed and delivered up this article from Last Friday’s Guardian newspaper.  William Dalrymple’s thoughts on travel literature deserve a reading because he [...]

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pen4hire on September 2nd, 2009

In Which I Have to Choose a Favorite Book Given the opportunity to read about the haunts of writers like T. E. Lawrence, Tennessee Williams, Ayn Rand, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemmingway, the Beats of San Francisco and more famous authors, I turned immediately to… What can I say? The thought of visiting the little piece [...]

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