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Auden", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/musee-des-beaux-arts-by-w-h-auden/", "published_at": "2016-11-03T20:59:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d6255490b", "title": "Travel Writer: Linda Lappin", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/linda-lappin/", "published_at": "2016-11-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d62fd7f12", "title": "Clowns Weren’t Creepy in 1921", "url": "http://www.hobartpulp.com/preview/web_features/clowns-weren-39-t-creepy-in-1921", "published_at": "2016-10-31T21:12:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d63c8ec38", "title": "Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/ozymandias-by-percy-bysshe-shelley/", "published_at": "2016-10-15T15:25:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d641f2307", "title": "Notes On the Narrative Conundrum of Baseball Fandom", "url": "https://medium.com/@rolfpotts/notes-on-the-narrative-conundrum-of-baseball-fandom-b11d2a3e6185", "published_at": "2016-10-12T21:33:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d645a84d7", "title": "Travel Writer: Tim Neville", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/tim-neville/", "published_at": "2016-10-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d64db4499", "title": "Travel Writer: Sally Shivnan", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/sally-shivnan/", "published_at": "2016-09-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d64f82c51", "title": "Travel Writer: Robert Moor", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/robert-moor/", "published_at": "2016-08-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d65d39ef7", "title": "Travel Writer: Marcia DeSanctis", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/marcia-desanctis/", "published_at": "2016-07-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d6639fbcb", "title": "The Slippery Slope of Musical Appropriation", "url": "http://reprints.longform.org/the-geto-boys", "published_at": "2016-06-24T21:43:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d6677c830", "title": "Travel Writer: Todd Pitock", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/todd-pitock/", "published_at": "2016-06-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d671bbdec", "title": "The Great Rap Censorship Scare of 1990", "url": "https://medium.com/cuepoint/the-great-rap-censorship-scare-of-1990-115edc69a62f", "published_at": "2016-05-25T23:07:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d6742838b", "title": "Travel Writer: Phil Cousineau", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/phil-cousineau/", "published_at": "2016-05-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d68106572", "title": "Travel Writer: Evita Robinson", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/evita-robinson/", "published_at": "2016-04-01T05:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d684ac6e9", "title": "Travel Writer: Costas Christ", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/costas-christ/", "published_at": "2016-03-01T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d6853a89f", "title": "Travel Writer: Gary Arndt", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/gary-arndt/", "published_at": "2016-02-01T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d68ccbdd8", "title": "Travel Writer: Erin Byrne", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/erin-byrne/", "published_at": "2016-01-01T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d68e49e65", "title": "Travel Writer: Jonathan Yevin", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/jonathan-yevin/", "published_at": "2015-12-01T06:00:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a087d7-6af5-71f5-9e71-ed4d693e47d8", "title": "Travel Writer: Lola Akinmade Åkerström", "url": "https://rolfpotts.com/lola-akinmade-akerstrom/", "published_at": "2015-11-01T05:00:00+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog

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2018

Like Kanye Rapping About Kanye Rapping About Kanye, by Caylin Capra-Thomas original ↗

27 Sept 2018

9 Outtakes from Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire”original ↗

20 Sept 2018

Creating a new sense of home is part of the travel process original ↗

13 Sept 2018

Adam and Eve’s Dog, by Richard Garcia original ↗

5 Sept 2018

Travel Writer: Cindy Ross original ↗

1 Sept 2018

“In the Fifties,” by Leonard Michaels original ↗

23 Aug 2018

Herodotus and the Art of Noticing original ↗

16 Aug 2018

9 Outtakes from Susan Sontag’s “On Photography”original ↗

9 Aug 2018

13 arguments for the literary importance of popular genre fiction original ↗

2 Aug 2018

Travel Writer: Kate Harris original ↗

1 Aug 2018

Evening, by Stuart Dischell original ↗

26 Jul 2018

Notes on the hypocrisy of “anti-tourists”original ↗

19 Jul 2018

Travel Writer: George Black original ↗

15 Jul 2018

M.F.K. Fisher’s “Laguna Journal”original ↗

12 Jul 2018

9 outtakes from Robert McKee’s screenwriting primer “Story”original ↗

5 Jul 2018

Travel Writer: Jayme Moye original ↗

1 Jul 2018

Longing, a Documentary, by Anne Carson original ↗

28 Jun 2018

5 Thoughts on the Power of Sentences original ↗

14 Jun 2018

Anthony Bourdain Did Not Speak Travelese original ↗

10 Jun 2018

Update: Spring 2018 original ↗

2 Jun 2018

Travel Writer: Stephanie Rosenbloom original ↗

1 Jun 2018

Urban Myth, by Jamey Dunham original ↗

24 May 2018

3 More Thoughts on the Importance of Remembering Your Audience original ↗

17 May 2018

Why Travel Writing Matters original ↗

2 May 2018

Travel Writer: Rowan Moore Gerety original ↗

1 May 2018

A Guide to Doc’s Melancholy Music in Steinbeck’s Cannery Row original ↗

19 Apr 2018

Walker Percy’s “The Loss of the Creature”original ↗

12 Apr 2018

It Only Starts, by Melody Davis original ↗

3 Apr 2018

Travel Writer: Amy Gigi Alexander original ↗

1 Apr 2018

9 Outtakes from Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem original ↗

15 Mar 2018

KCUR “Central Standard” radio interview with Rolf original ↗

15 Mar 2018

Why Do We Still Buy Mass-Produced Souvenirs?original ↗

8 Mar 2018

Men at Forty, by Donald Justice original ↗

8 Mar 2018

Travel Writer: Zora O’Neill original ↗

1 Mar 2018

5 More Thoughts On the Difficult Task Of Writing original ↗

22 Feb 2018

Abd el-Kader and the Massacre of Damascus original ↗

15 Feb 2018

TIME’s 1990 “Twentysomething” article (which first defined Generation X)original ↗

13 Feb 2018

Why You Should Become an Expatriate original ↗

8 Feb 2018

Travel Writer: Mark Johanson original ↗

1 Feb 2018

Lydia, by Geraldine Connolly original ↗

29 Jan 2018

12 Great Coming-Of-Age Movie Final-Scene Songs original ↗

18 Jan 2018

How the Devices of Fiction Can Enhance Travel Writing original ↗

11 Jan 2018

Travel Writer: Dave Seminara original ↗

1 Jan 2018

Novels in Three Lines, if Félix Fénéon had written for Billboard Circus News original ↗

1 Jan 2018

2017

The Devil’s Advice to Storytellers, by Robert Graves original ↗

28 Dec 2017

Transcript: Tim Ferriss’s 17 principles for creating successful podcasts original ↗

7 Dec 2017

Travel Writer: Pam Houston original ↗

1 Dec 2017

Travel Writer: Andrew Solomon original ↗

1 Nov 2017

Travel Writer: Joshua Kucera original ↗

1 Oct 2017

The Specific and the Universal in Travel Writing original ↗

2 Sept 2017

Travel Writer: Abbie Kozolchyk original ↗

1 Sept 2017

8 Thoughts On Keeping a Journal When You Travel original ↗

17 Aug 2017

Travel Writer: Marco Ferrarese original ↗

1 Aug 2017

15 Ways Game of Thrones is a Master Class in Conflict-Driven Storytelling original ↗

12 Jul 2017

Travel Writer: Erick Prince original ↗

1 Jul 2017

4 Thoughts on the Importance of Remembering Your Audience original ↗

12 Jun 2017

Love (by Lamplight)original ↗

8 Jun 2017

Travel Writer: Edmund Vallance original ↗

1 Jun 2017

You Reading This, Be Ready, by William Stafford original ↗

27 May 2017

Travel Writer: Charlie Grosso original ↗

1 May 2017

Couplets, XX by Robert Mezey original ↗

24 Apr 2017

6 Thoughts on the Importance of Storytelling original ↗

2 Apr 2017

Travel Writer: Kim Dinan original ↗

2 Apr 2017

A Mown Lawn, by Lydia Davis original ↗

20 Mar 2017

Eurodance Music Ruined My 1996 Arrival in Korea (and Left Its Mark On K-Pop)original ↗

3 Mar 2017

Travel Writer: Jill K. Robinson original ↗

1 Mar 2017

I Love to Hear From People (But There Are Some Caveats)original ↗

27 Feb 2017

The History Teacher, by Billy Collins original ↗

13 Feb 2017

Watching the Super Bowl in Namibia (and: Titles I Celebrated #8-10)original ↗

2 Feb 2017

Travel Writer: Jonathan Arlan original ↗

2 Feb 2017

4 Thoughts on Playwriting and Process, from August Wilson original ↗

16 Jan 2017

Two-Headed Calf, by Laura Gilpin original ↗

9 Jan 2017

Travel Writer: Maribel Steel original ↗

2 Jan 2017

2016

Literature of Desire: The 1976 Sears Christmas Wish Book original ↗

23 Dec 2016

Mixtapes as a Lost Language: A Brief Cultural Primer original ↗

12 Dec 2016

Six 1962 Daniel Boorstin Quotes That Foresaw Events In 2016 original ↗

7 Dec 2016

Travel Writer: Laura Fraser original ↗

1 Dec 2016

Excerpts from Angle Of Yaw, by Ben Lerner original ↗

28 Nov 2016

Stranger Things: 5 Differences Between the Pilot Script and the First Episode original ↗

14 Nov 2016

Notes On Updating An Author Website in the Late 2010s original ↗

8 Nov 2016

A VHS-Dubbed MTV Memoir of Lollapalooza 1991 original ↗

7 Nov 2016

Musée des Beaux Arts, by W. H. Auden original ↗

3 Nov 2016

Travel Writer: Linda Lappin original ↗

1 Nov 2016

Clowns Weren’t Creepy in 1921 original ↗

31 Oct 2016

Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley original ↗

15 Oct 2016

Notes On the Narrative Conundrum of Baseball Fandom original ↗

12 Oct 2016

Travel Writer: Tim Neville original ↗

1 Oct 2016

Travel Writer: Sally Shivnan original ↗

1 Sept 2016

Travel Writer: Robert Moor original ↗

1 Aug 2016

Travel Writer: Marcia DeSanctis original ↗

1 Jul 2016

The Slippery Slope of Musical Appropriation original ↗

24 Jun 2016

Travel Writer: Todd Pitock original ↗

1 Jun 2016

The Great Rap Censorship Scare of 1990 original ↗

25 May 2016

Travel Writer: Phil Cousineau original ↗

1 May 2016

Travel Writer: Evita Robinson original ↗

1 Apr 2016

Travel Writer: Costas Christ original ↗

1 Mar 2016

Travel Writer: Gary Arndt original ↗

1 Feb 2016

Travel Writer: Erin Byrne original ↗

1 Jan 2016

2015

Travel Writer: Jonathan Yevin original ↗

1 Dec 2015

Travel Writer: Lola Akinmade Åkerström original ↗

1 Nov 2015