interview
Where to for travel writing
The three interviews connected to our Kickstarter project started with Graham Boynton, a magazine and newspaper editor. My second subject was Rolf Potts, whose career [...]
Where to for travel writing?
As part of Old World Wandering’s Kickstarter project, I’m interviewing three people about travel, writing and how they intersect in the topsy-turvy present. Last week I [...]
Where to for travel writing?
Editor at Conde Nast Traveler and Group Travel Editor at the Daily Telegraph, Graham Boynton says “the greatest crisis facing travel writing [is] the dumbing down of the genre.”
China’s Forgotten Army
An interview with a veteran of China’s Forgotten Army in Mae Salong. Abandoned by Taiwan and adopted by Thailand, he fought for over 40 years.
Making a Life in China: A Documentary
An eTV documentary following three South Africans living in Bejing and Shanghai
Off the Record in Vientiane
A man I met in Vientiane, who spoke eloquently about the city and how it had changed, initially gave short, guarded answers to my questions. [...]
The Curse of Gokarna
Gokarna is a village growing awkwardly and uncomfortably into a town. It is in this sense an adolescent, unsure of itself in the modern world, but in every other sense Gokarna is old, with a history that stretches into the remotest parts of human memory.
Madrid
Claire and I arrived in Madrid late at night. We waited for a train to our hostel, watched by police with sniffer dogs, listening to [...]
