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How do we navigate the space between the curated tourism experience and the raw concrete of the world beneath it?
We investigate the “imaginative…
3 hours ago
Author Footprints Pt. 2 – The Aracataca Paradox
What happens to a real, working community when a fictional landscape is physically constructed on top of it?
We discover the socio-economic frict…
1 week, 1 day ago
Author Footprints Pt. 1 – Aura & Reliquary
Why do we drive thousands of miles just to touch the wooden beams of an author’s birthplace?
From Poe’s Baltimore to PEI and Waywords’s own Waterf…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
Packing Lists Pt. 2 – Stalwart Women
Who carries the weight of our leisure?
Some readings from the past by thoughtful and resilient women! Take in some early writing of place and circ…
3 weeks, 2 days ago
Packing Lists Pt. 1: Dreams and Dirt
Did your horse throw ya, buddy?
We investigate what we hope to achieve by literary travel . . . and why our packing cannot prepare us for it!
Whil…
4 weeks, 2 days ago
Grand Tours Pt 2: Bat on the Narrow Road
What’s the difference between being a passive tourist and a wayfarer?
Follow the 17th-century footsteps of Matsuo Basho to interrogate the gap bet…
1 month, 1 week ago
Grand Tours Pt 1: The Postcard Illusion
Are we consuming an authentic place, or are we willingly participating in a beautifully staged performance designed around our own expectations?
I…
1 month, 1 week ago
Literary Tourism Trailer
Welcome to the summer trailhead!
Join Journey 7 of Literary Nomads as we explore the secrets of literary tourism and travel writing. Discover how au…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Nomadic Departures
We are left on the precipice of a severe, unavoidable aporia: when the Empire can absorb and commercialize our very language of protest, the only …
2 months ago
What I Get Wrong: Intimidation & Interpretation
Is our intellectual exercise just an expensive lifestyle brand that keeps our hands clean?
In this raw, self-interrogating mailbag episode, we tu…
2 months, 1 week ago