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The Weekly Urchin Recap
By Geo Ong This Urchin’s going on assignment, y’all. I leave tomorrow, and for ten days I will live in and explore the mystical city of Los Angeles. Yes, that one. Yeah, I know what you mean. Yeah, I did … Continue reading
Here I Go Again: The Onset of New Travel Writing
By Geo Ong The epigraph of (the wonderfully-named) William Least Heat-Moon’s forthcoming collection of travel essays comes from an overheard conversation involving a New York City waitress called Dolores, in 2001, who said: I live downtown and I work uptown. … Continue reading
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Tagged books, here there elsewhere, travel essays, travel literature, travel writing, william least heat-moon, writers, writing
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Urchin Travel Advice
*** Don’t make assumptions! Some of your worst experiences/best stories come from assuming that something will work. For example, do not assume that just because you have a Eurail pass you don’t need to purchase a seat reservation. You will … Continue reading
And Now, Langston Hughes Demonstrates How to Live a Decade
By Geo Ong Langston Hughes, primarily known as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance, also happened to be a pretty legit traveller. No further evidence is required than his travelogue of the 1930s, I Wonder As I Wander. In a … Continue reading
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Tagged 1930s, america, books, communism, francisco franco, great depression, henri cartier-bresson, i wonder as i wander, jim crow, langston hughes, madame sun yat sen, mulatto, poets, russia, soviet union, spanish civil war, travel literature, travel writing, travelogues, World War II
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A Personal Reading Year in Review, Part Two
By Geo Ong You didn’t think I was done, did you? There’s more. In addition to the categories I’ve covered last week, here are some more reading trends to share with you. The Travelling Writer Travel literature is a mainstay … Continue reading
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Tagged a field guide to getting lost, a walk in the woods, bbc, Bill Bryson, books, bruce chatwin, eadweard muybridge, edmund white, geoff nicholson, gertrude stein, helene hanff, in patagonia, Jack Kerouac, notes on a dirty island, paris, paris france, reading, rebecca solnit, river of shadows, satori in paris, the duchess of bloomsbury street, the flaneur, the lost art of walking, travel literature
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‘I Feel Like I’ve Seen You Here Before’: Recurring Thoughts on Travel Writing
by Geo Ong Both travel and writing are important tenets of Urchin philosophy, which naturally suggests that travel writing is twice as important. It sure seems that way, to us and probably to you, if you’ve been reading us for … Continue reading
That’s What He Said
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In … Continue reading
That’s What He Said
The waitress came over and put a paper mat and cutlery in front of me. ‘Hi!’ she said in a voice that was more shout than salutation. ‘And how are you doin’ today?’ She sounded as if she really cared. … Continue reading
Posted in Examples in Urchinism, Geo, Literature, That's What They Said, Travel
Tagged america, Bill Bryson, books, england, the lost continent, the Midwest, travel literature
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The Urchin Book Trunk
As we mentioned earlier, the Urchins are embarking on our first ever Urchin road trip. In preparation for our journey, we look to the interesting minds that have done it before us. Here it is – the Urchin Book Trunk! … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Examples in Urchinism, Literature, Travel
Tagged air-conditioned nightmare, america, america day by day, Beat Generation, beats, bennington, Bill Bryson, books, dogs, edna st vincent millay, electric kool-aid acid test, england, essays, expatriates, frasier, gothic literature, henry david thoreau, henry miller, Jack Kerouac, john steinbeck, london, mark twain, new journalism, nonfiction, novels, on the road, poetry, poodles, pulitzer prize, riding toward everywhere, road trip, roughing it, sal paradise, shirley jackson, simone de beauvoir, sixties, stephen fry, stephen fry in america, the lost continent, tom wolfe, train hopping, travel literature, travels with charley, urchin book trunk, urchin bookshelf, Vermont, walden, we have always lived in the castle, william t vollmann
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