A wonderful, challenging, and enlightening journey has come to an end. Like every great project, it was made possible by the people who helped me along the way: My family, my friends, Eli, Eli’s family, the artists I read and the artists I met, my hosts, and, of course, the readers of this blog. Many thanks to you all. It will certainly not be my last literary travel project, so stay tuned for alerts from this site.
Schlagwort: Travel
Voices: Arielle Burgdorf
Arielle Burgdorf is always on the move: Originally from Washington, D.C., she lived in Philadelphia, Edinburgh, San Diego, and San Francisco and recently started pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing in Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in Maximum Rocknroll, Feministe, The Feminist Review, Horseless Press, Bone and Ink Press, and can be found online here, here, and here. Voices: Arielle Burgdorf weiterlesen
Literary Landmarks in Ciudad de México
Long strolls through Parque Chapultepec and vegan lunch at the cafeteria of a Hare Krishna temple – the memories of my first visit to Ciudad de México in 2014 make the city seem relaxed and peaceful. Upon my return, the impression is different. With 9 million inhabitants in the center and 20.4 million inhabitants in the greater urban area, Ciudad de México is the most populous city in North America. It takes the bus almost three hours to get from the first signs of sprawl to Terminal Central del Norte. But not just the size of the city, the language, too, poses more problems than expected. Without a travel companion fluent in Spanish, even simple, everyday interactions are difficult and exhausting. Nevertheless, the kindness of friends and fellow writers makes my stay worthwhile. Literary Landmarks in Ciudad de México weiterlesen
Books, Booths, and Burritos in San Francisco
Sometime during the 17-hour-trainride from Portland to San Francisco, the lush forests of the Pacific Northwest turn into the hills covered by yellow and green grasslands and bushes that surround the Bay Area. The Ohlone people, including the Yelamu, are the original inhabitants of the area that is now San Francisco. They were the largest group of Native Americans south of the Coast Salish before European settlement expanded from the East Coast. Now their traces are few and far in between. The time of Spanish colonization and Mexican affiliation, however, is still present in many place and street names. Books, Booths, and Burritos in San Francisco weiterlesen
Tracing „A Tale For The Time Being“ on Cortes Island
The beach where Ruth finds Nao’s diary // An diesem Strand findet Ruth Naos Tagebuch.
The bookstore // Die Buchhandlung.
The free store // Der Umsonstladen.
The Cortes Museum // Das Cortes-Museum.
A Tale for The Time Being (Canongate, 2013) is a book about connections – between and in spite of people, time, and place. The story is set in motion when Ruth, who lives on Cortes, one of the Discovery Islands at the northern end of Georgia Strait, finds a mysterious piece of flotsam: The diary of Nao, a teenager in Japan. Tracing „A Tale For The Time Being“ on Cortes Island weiterlesen
Trains, Planes, and Books. 