The idea of sustainable tourism can leave a weird taste in your mouth. This is only made worse when, as today’s guest notes, the term is used incorrectly in all …
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Traveling is often full of joy and surprise and intrigue. Writing about those travel experiences can be difficult but almost always fulfilling. But editing…that’s where writers tend to get stuck. …
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Over the past year, AI has elbowed its way onto the scene, provoking both doomsday and utopian thinking around its capabilities. One group that has been particularly nervous about this …
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While working as a ski instructor in Europe, Ash Bhardwaj approached his 30s. He’d been traveling for years and loving it. But then something shifted. Travel felt less meaningful somehow, …
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After her two travel writing jobs became redundant in quick succession more than ten years ago, Katie Silcox accepted an opportunity in India, planning to stay for a year or …
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The Travel Writing Podcast
How Travel Writing Changes Travel: A Conversation With the Editors of Intrepid Times
Nathan and I often find ourselves discussing how where we travel to informs our writing, so for this episode we decided to approach the conversation from the opposite direction. We …
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In 2002, after leaving a university job in New Zealand and moving to Moscow, John Dolan invented the pseudonym Gary Brecher, a character he imagined as a smart, unhappy data-entry …
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Truth is a tricky subject on the best of days, but when you’re talking about a genre of writing that seems to defy easy binaries, well, let’s just say there’s …
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When the excitement of travel encounters the anxiety of a life left behind, a travel writer realizes that, even among the steep alleyways of Portugal’s capital, getting lost requires its …
