Category Archives: travel
Fanboy
Over at the Morning News, my new essay “Fanboy” is up. The artwork here is a beautiful illustration commissioned from an artist by the name of Katie Turner. This is an essay that began about a year ago in a comic … Continue reading
Filed under author's own, Koreanish, letters from away, politics, travel
What I Did On My Summer Vacation
Wrote an homage in this month’s GQ to the city of Portland, ME, for their “Best Small Cities in America” travel feature. Yes, that’s the one with the somehow controversial photos of the two female leads of Glee, Lea Michelle … Continue reading
Storage
I saw Heathers again last Friday night. I remembered how I went to it twice the first night it appeared in theaters. My friend Libby and I drove out to it in her ancient and enormous Cadillac DeVille, and as … Continue reading
Filed under film, travel, what is right with us, what is wrong with us
100 Things About A Novel, Pt. 2
[Note: Part 1 is here.] 25. Novels are hard, not like diamonds but like fate, the choice you make that reveals it was never a choice at all. 26. Then it is the novel as jailer. You in a small … Continue reading
Filed under novels, travel, what I am working on, writers, writing
All Over the World, This Is How People Tell Stories
Tomorrow, I’m going to wake up and go buy a copy of The Moviegoer, by Walker Percy. I’ve gone too long. * * * At the gym, where I watch TV news, I could only find news on how a … Continue reading
Spata Sphinx, Athens Airport, July 14, 2009
My novel is eating everything in my mind right now, except the ability to draw. This was drawn in Athens airport. The Sphinx was found when the airport was being expanded, and is part of a group of antiquities on … Continue reading
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Belga
I go to Belgium, for a week, on a travel junket for food writers. In the breakfast rooms of their hotels I read the news online from my computer, which is all about how Michelle Obama hugged the Queen, and … Continue reading
Filed under letters to you, trash, travel
Most of What I Like to Do Is Indoors
1. Canada has more comics than we do, it occurs to me, as I walk through The Beguiling in Toronto. It is the best comics shop in Toronto, and perhaps in all of Canada. I pause to admire what appears … Continue reading
Filed under letters to no one in particular, travel, what is right with us
In Which I Go To Paris
I go to Paris. The day I leave, I go to the bank to make sure I can take out the money for the rent due on the apartment where I’ll stay, in the 1st. The woman teller is wild-eyed … Continue reading
Home Again
I sit at the gate in Athens airport, Gate A5, waiting for my flight to London, and make the drawing above. The plane is delayed, and it occurs to me that as soon as I left Sifnos, everything that has … Continue reading
Filed under koreanish headers, letters from away, travel
