Bruce Chatwin

Forget The Piano, Try Playing A Gallery!

Posted 01.28.2012

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What are we if not defined by our environment? This question has captivated generations, from the Indigenous Australians to modern day sound artist...

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The Cosmopolitan Nomad

Mark Coleman | Posted 06.12.2011

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Mark Coleman

Bruce Chatwin turned his journeys into bestselling books. The letters collected here -- including many postcards -- were sent via snail mail from Afghanistan, Argentina, Sudan, Nepal, Java, and elsewhere.

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Cartography Quiz: Can You Name These Literary Maps?

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.07.2011

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Maps can be complicated things; they can obscure more than they reveal, depending on who is using it and what is understood. In Songlines, Bruce Chatw...

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Walk, Pray, Love: New Travelogue Explores the Redemptive Power of Walking: Interview with Author Mickey Mahaffey

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bruce Chatwin, Walking, Asheville, Being the Diablo, Mexico, Glass Castle, Memoir, Travel, Travel Writing, Documentary Film, Rod Murphy, Born to Run, North Carolina, Travel News
Jeff Biggers

"Walking is a virtue," celebrated author and traveler Bruce Chatwin once wrote, "tourism is a deadly sin." For author Mickey Mahaffey, who will launc...

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"Only Disconnect..." With Hemingway's Notebook

Elizabeth Benedict | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Maine Woods, Paris in the 20s, Hemingway, Moleskine, E.M. Forester, Novel Writing, Bruce Chatwin, Books News
Elizabeth Benedict

I wrote three pages. By hand. With a pen. I woke up early every day for two weeks and wrote this way. It was primitive and thrilling, like cooking over a campfire, like celestial navigation.

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