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PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature
Date: April 20th, 2007 |
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There’s a few great speaking events going on with a few top travel writers in New York next week during the New York Festival of International Literature. If you are in the city I highly recomend checking it out.
Where: New York City
When: April 24-29, 2007
THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 5-6 p.m.
Pico Iyer in Conversation with Hal [read more]
SF Bay Area: Traveler’s Tales Events
Date: April 7th, 2007 | No Comments
It’s Easter, and between eating chocolate eggs and watching it pour outside, nothing much has happened. No writing, no travelling, no nothing.
So while I’m enjoying Madrid, some good cinema and my sofa, thought I’d give those living in San Francisco Bay Area a heads up on the Traveler’s Tales (TT) events happening there soon:
What:
TT [read more]
Book Release: One Hundred Places Every Woman Should Go
Date: February 26th, 2007 | 1 comment
Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference
Date: May 20th, 2007 | No Comments
The 16th Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference will take place this year from August 16-19 in California, (just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco).
Word is that alongside writing guru’s such as Don George, Tim Cahill, Isabel Allende and Rolf Potts (to name a few), our very own Jen Leo will be [read more]
National Writers Workshop Schedule 2007
Date: April 30th, 2007 | No Comments
Moving to Madrid and trying to be an (English language) writer, do not go very well together. There only 2 decent local English language monthlies and any event/seminar/book release of any literary value is in Spanish.
So while I am language-locked in the Mediterranean, incase any of you are in California, Kansas, Texas, Florida or [read more]
Press Trip: LA’s Secret Heart through True Crime, Chandler, Fante and ’60s Rock
Date: April 20th, 2007 | No Comments
WHAT: Launch of sophisticated bus tour series Esotouric, a spin-off of
the popular 1947project Crime Bus Tours
WHEN: Free press junket tour, April 22 in LA, public tours begin in May
TOURS: Raymond Chandler’s LA, John Fante’s Dreams of Bunker Hill, Riot
on Sunset Strip (’60s Hollywood rock scene), The Real Black Dahlia,
Pasadena Confidential, etc.
Upcoming Esotouric tour schedule:
Sun April [read more]
Adventure Travel Lecture Series
Date: March 21st, 2007 | No Comments
The Globe Corner bookstore has announced several upcoming speakers for its Adventure Travel Lecture Series. Events are free and reservations are strongly urged.
TUESDAY, MARCH 20TH
LONELY PLANET COSTA RICA
Mara Vorhees, author of Lonely Planet Costa Rica, and numerous other Lonely Planet Guides will give an illustrated talk about travel in Costa Rica. Reservations recommended.
MONDAY, APRIL 2ND
THE [read more]
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