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Stambush", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/c-l-stambush/", "published_at": "2022-04-14T05:00:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-030081dc5ad8", "title": "Travel Writer: John Krich", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/john-krich/", "published_at": "2022-03-31T05:58:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-030082a6246c", "title": "Five of the best Deviate podcast episodes about movies (so far)", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/deviate-movies/", "published_at": "2022-03-25T05:40:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008331bddd", "title": "5 Thoughts On the Difficult Work Of Writing", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/5-thoughts-on-the-difficult-work-of-writing/", "published_at": "2022-03-17T05:02:50+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-0300841d626a", "title": "Travel Writer: Daniel Stables", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/daniel-stables/", "published_at": "2022-03-03T06:48:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-0300845cbcc8", "title": "13 Outtakes from Chuck Klosterman’s “The Nineties”", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/klosterman-the-nineties/", "published_at": "2022-02-17T06:07:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-0300850bd638", "title": "Travel Writer: JoAnna Haugen", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/joanna-haugen/", "published_at": "2022-02-03T06:04:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-030085a2ecab", "title": "9 Outtakes from Dave Grohl’s “The Storyteller”", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/dave-grohl-the-storyteller/", "published_at": "2022-01-20T06:07:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008656abf8", "title": "Prologue from Peter Whitfield’s “Travel: A Literary History”", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/travel-a-literary-history/", "published_at": "2022-01-06T06:43:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-030086841373", "title": "Travel Writer: Carey Baraka", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/carey-baraka/", "published_at": "2021-12-30T06:22:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-0300873c73cc", "title": "Simon Winchester’s intro to Martin Parr’s 1995 photo book “Small World”", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/small-world/", "published_at": "2021-12-23T06:21:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-030087607d3f", "title": "Five of the best Deviate podcast episodes about life-affecting personal experiences", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/rolfs-life-experiences/", "published_at": "2021-12-09T06:02:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-030087b72413", "title": "Travel Writer: Andrea Sachs", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/andrea-sachs/", "published_at": "2021-12-02T06:08:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008885c386", "title": "Parents, by William Meredith", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/parents-by-william-meredith/", "published_at": "2021-11-25T06:04:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-030088f80f11", "title": "9 Outtakes from Richard K. Popp’s “The Holiday Makers”", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/the-holiday-makers/", "published_at": "2021-11-11T06:47:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-030089d2210a", "title": "Travel Writer: Jan Morris", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/jan-morris/", "published_at": "2021-11-04T05:00:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008a7c2899", "title": "“Shark!” by Peter Benchley (the 1967 magazine essay that inspired “Jaws”)", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/shark-by-peter-benchley/", "published_at": "2021-10-28T05:14:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008a7eb4fb", "title": "7 thoughts on the necessity of turning oneself into a “character” in nonfiction", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/i-character/", "published_at": "2021-10-14T05:54:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008afd7935", "title": "Travel Writer: Dana Givens", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/dana-givens/", "published_at": "2021-09-30T05:32:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008b0b9d19", "title": "Five of the best Deviate podcast episodes (so far) about travel on foot", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/travel-on-foot/", "published_at": "2021-09-16T05:02:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008b17c806", "title": "Travel Writer: Craig Mod", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/craig-mod/", "published_at": "2021-09-02T05:49:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008b9db9b4", "title": "5 thoughts on giving your essay or story a narrative “engine”", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/narrative-engine/", "published_at": "2021-08-19T05:50:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008be1d74e", "title": "The Man Explains His Souvenirs, by Charles Rafferty", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/the-man-explains-his-souvenirs/", "published_at": "2021-08-05T05:09:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008c5cdca1", "title": "Travel Writer: Lauren Keith", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/lauren-keith/", "published_at": "2021-08-01T05:33:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af3-7398-bedc-03008d4abfc2", "title": "Prologue from “The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000,” by Jan Morris", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/the-world-jan-morris/", "published_at": "2021-07-22T05:48:14+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2024

3 key insights from “Dervla Murphy’s Laws of Travel”original ↗

8 Aug 2024

Travel Writer: Shahnaz Habib original ↗

1 Aug 2024

“Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology” (Oxford): Introduction essay original ↗

24 Jul 2024

Of Travel, by Francis Bacon (1561-1626)original ↗

10 Jul 2024

Travel Writer: Megan Harlan original ↗

1 Jul 2024

Bill Bryson: The 1998 Salon Wanderlust “Walk in the Woods” interview original ↗

27 Jun 2024

How writers can sharpen their prose by understanding the “ladder of abstraction”original ↗

13 Jun 2024

Travel Writer: Oliver Smith original ↗

1 Jun 2024

“Marco Polo Didn’t Go There”: An introduction to Rolf’s second book original ↗

23 May 2024

“Perhapsing”: The Use of Speculation in Creative Nonfiction, by Lisa Knopp original ↗

16 May 2024

Travel Writer: Zoey Goto original ↗

1 May 2024

“The most beautiful thing in the world,” from Chloe Cooper Jones’s “Easy Beauty”original ↗

24 Apr 2024

In Praise of Loitering, by Ross Gay original ↗

10 Apr 2024

Travel Writer: Jonathan DeHart original ↗

1 Apr 2024

“How to Write About Africa,” by Binyavanga Wainaina original ↗

26 Mar 2024

“The Faces,” by Robert Creeley (1983)original ↗

7 Mar 2024

Travel Writer: Aaron Millar original ↗

1 Mar 2024

To show and to tell: How to write nonfiction from a “double perspective”original ↗

22 Feb 2024

Notes on “Walk and Talk” (a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand)original ↗

8 Feb 2024

Travel Writer: Bart Schaneman original ↗

1 Feb 2024

The best way to experience a new place is to find a shared community of interest original ↗

23 Jan 2024

When your fellow tourists turn out to be as interesting as the tourist attraction original ↗

18 Jan 2024

Rolf’s Top-10 “Reverse-Bucket List” experiences from 2023 original ↗

4 Jan 2024

Travel Writer: Mike Nixon original ↗

1 Jan 2024

2023

In northern Kenya, one’s fellow travelers aren’t always fellow tourists original ↗

21 Dec 2023

Travel Writer: Claire Polders original ↗

1 Dec 2023

Locals often perform a version of their culture based on travelers’ expectations original ↗

24 Nov 2023

Travel Writer: Marlin Darrah original ↗

1 Nov 2023

Travel Writer: Tharik Hussain original ↗

1 Oct 2023

Travel Writer: Nguher Zaki original ↗

1 Sept 2023

Travel Writer: Ketti Wilhelm original ↗

1 Aug 2023

The truest “influencers” don’t live in the virtual world original ↗

13 Jul 2023

Travel Writer: Michael McCarthy original ↗

1 Jul 2023

Remembering internet cafes, and how they affected the experience of travel original ↗

15 Jun 2023

Travel Writer: Sarah Stodola original ↗

1 Jun 2023

15 insights from Jonathan Gottschall’s book “The Storytelling Animal”original ↗

25 May 2023

What we hope to see in places can be at odds with reality original ↗

11 May 2023

Travel Writer: Kat Lewis original ↗

5 May 2023

Travel Writer: Rick Antonson original ↗

27 Apr 2023

Your first vagabonding journey remains in conversation with the travels that follow original ↗

13 Apr 2023

Travel Writer: Nora Dunn original ↗

30 Mar 2023

“Kansas: Shall We Civilize Her or Let Her Civilize Us?” by Irvin S. Cobb (1923)original ↗

7 Mar 2023

Travel Writer: Nick Hunt original ↗

2 Mar 2023

Six of the best Deviate podcast episodes about sports (so far)original ↗

16 Feb 2023

Travel Writer: Emily Pennington original ↗

2 Feb 2023

Justin’s “Grateful Acre” fable, from Will Arbery’s “Heroes of the Fourth Turning”original ↗

26 Jan 2023

A few thoughts on the merits of taking an extended break from social media original ↗

12 Jan 2023

2022

Travel Writer: Andrew X. Pham original ↗

29 Dec 2022

Dispatches from “The Vagabond’s Way” book launch (and a sojourn in DC)original ↗

23 Dec 2022

The global definition of “traveler” is broad (and vibrant)original ↗

16 Dec 2022

Kristen Bush “masterful” in Duncan Macmillan’s “People, Places & Things”original ↗

12 Dec 2022

10 Insights from Pico Iyer’s 2022 TravelCon Keynote Address original ↗

2 Dec 2022

Travel Writer: Bob Payne original ↗

30 Nov 2022

Travel Writer: Bruce Kirkby original ↗

27 Oct 2022

Faroese art isn’t exclusive to museums in Tórshavn original ↗

20 Oct 2022

Oh me! Oh life! by Walt Whitman original ↗

13 Oct 2022

How does one determine what counts as a “visit” to another country?original ↗

6 Oct 2022

Travel Writer: Travis Levius original ↗

29 Sept 2022

Seeing 1950s American culture through Norwegian eyes at a Sørum car club original ↗

15 Sept 2022

Maya Angelou’s “Passports to Understanding” (1993)original ↗

8 Sept 2022

Travel Writer: Matt Kepnes original ↗

1 Sept 2022

Paul Fussell’s introduction to The Norton Book of Travel (1987)original ↗

25 Aug 2022

Rest days (like this one in Norway) are key to the long-term travel experience original ↗

18 Aug 2022

“The Philosophy of Travel,” by George Santayana original ↗

11 Aug 2022

Sometimes, Paris travel-writing class exercises can yield celebrity sightings original ↗

5 Aug 2022

Travel Writer: Heather Greenwood Davis original ↗

28 Jul 2022

Nicholas D. Kristof’s case for using indie-travel guidebooks (from 1986)original ↗

14 Jul 2022

Travel Writer: Stuart McDonald original ↗

30 Jun 2022

“Picturesque World”: Intro to The Best Travel Writing, Vol. 11 original ↗

23 Jun 2022

The Vagabond’s Way: Ballantine to release Rolf’s new book in October of 2022 original ↗

6 Jun 2022

“For the Traveler,” by John O’Donohue (2008)original ↗

4 Jun 2022

Travel Writer: Tim Bascom original ↗

26 May 2022

Street Haunting: A London Adventure, by Virginia Woolf (1930)original ↗

12 May 2022

Travel Writer: Anne P. Beatty original ↗

28 Apr 2022

“On Native Ground,” by Wade Davis (2008)original ↗

14 Apr 2022

Travel Writer: C.L. Stambush original ↗

14 Apr 2022

Travel Writer: John Krich original ↗

31 Mar 2022

Five of the best Deviate podcast episodes about movies (so far)original ↗

25 Mar 2022

5 Thoughts On the Difficult Work Of Writing original ↗

17 Mar 2022

Travel Writer: Daniel Stables original ↗

3 Mar 2022

13 Outtakes from Chuck Klosterman’s “The Nineties”original ↗

17 Feb 2022

Travel Writer: JoAnna Haugen original ↗

3 Feb 2022

9 Outtakes from Dave Grohl’s “The Storyteller”original ↗

20 Jan 2022

Prologue from Peter Whitfield’s “Travel: A Literary History”original ↗

6 Jan 2022

2021

Travel Writer: Carey Baraka original ↗

30 Dec 2021

Simon Winchester’s intro to Martin Parr’s 1995 photo book “Small World”original ↗

23 Dec 2021

Five of the best Deviate podcast episodes about life-affecting personal experiences original ↗

9 Dec 2021

Travel Writer: Andrea Sachs original ↗

2 Dec 2021

Parents, by William Meredith original ↗

25 Nov 2021

9 Outtakes from Richard K. Popp’s “The Holiday Makers”original ↗

11 Nov 2021

Travel Writer: Jan Morris original ↗

4 Nov 2021

“Shark!” by Peter Benchley (the 1967 magazine essay that inspired “Jaws”)original ↗

28 Oct 2021

7 thoughts on the necessity of turning oneself into a “character” in nonfiction original ↗

14 Oct 2021

Travel Writer: Dana Givens original ↗

30 Sept 2021

Five of the best Deviate podcast episodes (so far) about travel on foot original ↗

16 Sept 2021

Travel Writer: Craig Mod original ↗

2 Sept 2021

5 thoughts on giving your essay or story a narrative “engine”original ↗

19 Aug 2021

The Man Explains His Souvenirs, by Charles Rafferty original ↗

5 Aug 2021

Travel Writer: Lauren Keith original ↗

1 Aug 2021

Prologue from “The World: Life and Travel 1950-2000,” by Jan Morris original ↗

22 Jul 2021