Stories by Subject
Profiles:
All the Things He Did Not Know: How Tom Bissell went from directionless dropout to acclaimed author (Poets & Writers)
Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wants you to free your will, change your brain and take a journey to the center of your mind (Madison Magazine)
Chasing the Whale: A Profile of Junot Díaz (Poets & Writers)
Pure Klingon: What to Do When You’re an Interstellar Villain Trapped in a Puny Human’s Body? (Portland Mercury)
Travel: Africa
The Reunion: After nearly 15 years, a man learns new lessons about change (Washington Post Magazine)
A Mind Dismembered: In search of the magical penis thieves (Harper’s)
Family on Safari: The family vacation minus one (World Hum)
The Roads Between Us: A Journey Across Africa (World Hum)
Making Bombs in Zanzibar (Salon)
Travel: America
Ebb and Flow: A ride down the Mississippi River helps a cyclist appreciate the hometown he once despised (Bicycling)
In South Dakota, the Lower Brule Sioux promote their culture without kitsch (Washington Post Magazine)
The Search for Sasquatch: Looking for Bigfoot in the north woods of Minnesota (Minnesota Monthly)
The World Within: Traveling with Dr. Evermor (Madison Magazine)
Aliens, Anomalies and Absurdity at Mt. Adams (Portland Mercury)
Essays
Inner Space: Clearing Some Room for Inspiration (Poets & Writers)
The Pursuit of Unhappiness: There’s more to life than endless smiles (Rotarian)
I Google Myself, Therefore I Am (Poets & Writers)
Sense and sensitivity: Sometimes a translation only gets you half way (Rotarian)
1,000 Places to Not go Before You Die (World Hum)
Criticism
A Very Particular Place “Looking for Transwonderland: Travels in Nigeria” (The New Republic)
The Fall of the Creative Class (Thirty Two)
The Death of the Idyll: “The Wisdom of Tuscany” and the last gasp of a genre (World Hum)
Non-Places and the End of Travel: On Marc Augé’s “Introduction to Supermodernity” (World Hum)
Sex, Drugs and Fish Salad: A journey to the center of Paul Theroux’s mind (World Hum)
On Books, Writing, etc:
Things Come Together: A Journey through Literary Lagos (VQR)
Billy Collins on the poetry of Travel (World Hum)
Africa’s Publishing Renaisance (The Africa Report)
Ngugi wa Thiongo on Africa, writing and what you owe your own language (The Africa Report)
Other:
11 Things You Must Know About Canada (World Hum)
Some Possibilities in a Half-Hearted Campaign to Rename the Middle West (McSweeneys.net)
After years on the move, Frank Bures finds himself transported across the globe at home (World Hum)
Selected Messages from the More than 600 Posted about Ultraviolet Laser Cheese Slicer (McSweeneys.net)
Interview with a plant psychic (frankbures.com)
