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Author to Author: Teddy Minford and Jen Rose Smith

Author to Author: Teddy Minford and Jen Rose Smith

Jen Rose Smith and Teddy Minford have both published books to some of summer’s most classic destinations. Jen Rose Smith is the author of Moon’s Vermont guidebook (released May 21, 2019) and Teddy Minford is the author of Beachy Weekend Getaways from New York: Short Breaks in the Hamptons, Long Island, and the Jersey Shore (released June 11, 2019). The two writers sat down to talk about travel, summer, and what it’s like to write a guidebook. Jen Rose Smith:…

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Traveling Alone Landed Me at an Indian Wedding

Traveling Alone Landed Me at an Indian Wedding

by: Dena Moes If I dug a hole straight through the middle of the Earth from my home in Chico, California, I would eventually surface in India. I took the long way around, traveling for twenty-three hours by air, to see my sister and her brand new baby. My sister Amy was a foreign correspondent posted in New Delhi for years, and I had never made the trip, too busy and cash-poor raising my own young children in California. But…

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Author to Author: Randon Billings Noble and Amy Long

Author to Author: Randon Billings Noble and Amy Long

Aldous Huxley once said, “The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.” Both Randon Billings Noble and Amy Long have crafted essay collections that cover subjects as diverse as chronic pain, opioid use and addiction to depression and the longing that memories can elicit. Randon’s full-length collection, Be With Me Always, is available as of March 1, 2019. Amy’s debut essay collection, Codependence, will be released in September 2019. Check out their lively, vulnerable and…

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Walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

Walking the Camino de Santiago de Compostela

by: Ele Pawelski In the fiery orange of dawn, I cross the old San Marcos Bridge out of León, Spain. It’s early, but I’m far from alone. Walking poles tap-tap on ancient stone as I march ahead with the handful of other pilgrims. My first Camino day will be a 20-kilometer segment, with the goal of reaching Santiago de Compostela’s grand Cathedral in two weeks. I’m confident I can do it because this is Camino 2.0 for me. Walking the…

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Author to Author: Jennifer Haupt and Ele Pawelski

Author to Author: Jennifer Haupt and Ele Pawelski

Ele Pawelski, author of The Finest Supermarket in Kabul, and Jennifer Haupt, author of In the Shadow of 10,000 Hills, talk crossing the lines between fiction and nonfiction. Both have travelled extensively through conflict zones and have crafted fictional works that incorporate pieces of their harrowing, moving experiences. Jennifer Haupt: How long did you spend in Kabul, and why did you decide to write a novella instead of a memoir? Ele Pawelski: I was in Kabul for just under 18…

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