Interviews

Interview: Cullen Thomas

Date: April 8th, 2008 |

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I ran into Cullen Thomas around NYC during a few writer events and he was kind enough to agree to an interview for Written Road. He is the author of Brother One Cell, a book about his time in a South Korean prison, and his work has appeared in Salon, the New York Times, the [read more]

Interview: Ross Borden

Date: December 14th, 2007 |

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As we continue our series of interviews in travel media, co-founder of Matador Travel Ross Borden sits down to answer questions on creating their rapidly expanding site, The Traveler’s Notebook, the Bounty Board , his personal travel preferences, and much, much, more. Enjoy!
Written Road: How did you first become involved in travel writing/publishing?
Ross Borden: Matador [read more]

Travel-Writing Web 2.0

Date: November 15th, 2007 |

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For those who haven’t seen this already, there is a great interview with Tim Leffel done by our friends at Brave New Traveler.
With everything under the sun moving online at an incredibly fast pace, the future of travel-writing on the Internet is a hot topic. I personally think that just for the pace at which [read more]

Interview: David Farley

Date: August 8th, 2007 |

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Writer David Farley has been featured in notable publications such as The Washington Post, Perceptive Travel, and Playboy. He was the co-editor of Travelers’ Tales Prague and teaches travel writing at Gotham Writers’ Workshop and New York University. His book on his search for the foreskin of Jesus will be published by Gotham Books in [read more]

Interview: Pauline Frommer

Date: May 21st, 2007 |

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Pauline Frommer, daughter of American Travel writing legend Arthur Frommer, has built a successful career in her own right and last year began releasing her own line of guidebooks, which have been highly acclaimed for her “Spend less, see more,” approach. She was kind enough to grant Written Road a candid interview.
See articles, podcasts, [read more]

The Harsh Realities Of Life As A Lonely Planet Travel-Writer

Date: February 7th, 2008 |

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Dreaming to write for the Lonely Planet is often where your inspiration to become a travel-writer comes from. I remember I frequently used to spend time in a book shop reading and taking down notes from the biographies of the writers of each LP edition: what their background was, what they aspired to, and if [read more]

My Interview On Write-To-Travel!

Date: November 21st, 2007 |

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I had the privilege of being interviewed (as a travel-writer!) by KiwiWriter for her wonderfully resourceful travel-writing blogs Write-To-Travel.
It’s my first proper interview and I’m thrilled. I must be doing something right!
Check it [read more]

Rolf Potts Interview: The Future of Travel Writing

Date: August 9th, 2007 |

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Our friends at Brave New Traveler have just published an interview with Rolf Potts where, other than his thoughts on the future of travel writing, he talks about online-travel writing, the “hum of possibility”, and what he is up to these days.
I could relate to Rucksack Wanderer Tim Patterson’s (the interviewer) intro very closely. It [read more]

Interview with Mike Gerrard

Date: July 17th, 2007 |

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Britan’s Mike Gerrard is one of the world’s most prolific guidebook writers and has been one of the lucky few to have a steady career in travel writing. He was kind enough to grant Written Road an interview:
Written Road: How did you first become involved in travel writing?
Mike Gerrard: I had to go get my [read more]

Interview with Michael Luongo

Date: April 30th, 2007 |

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Michael Luongo is the author of Frommer’s Buenos Aires guidebook and a contributor to publications such as Out Traveler, The Advocate, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Town & Country Travel, Budget Travel, Gay.com, Conde Nast Traveler, and National Geographic Traveler. He is also an editor and photographer, and one written and edited numerous [read more]