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Will Sonheim's avatar

Long TATWU reader, first time caller.

Some travel writing (kind of?) Rebecca Solnit (Wanderlust), Geoff Dyer (Out of Sheer Rage -- Kind of?), I feel like THE SONGLINES by Bruce Chatwin gets tossed around a lot? Underland

Book by Robert Macfarlane is also a big favorite.

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Em Haverty's avatar

Hot damn these all look so good. Travel Writing (Kind Of) should be recognized as its own subgenre

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Amanda's avatar

Hi Em! Travel book that I liked a lot: "A Trip to the Light Fantastic" is a love letter to Mexico written by a woman who travels with a very small circus for a season.

Would "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" count as a travel and meta-clown revolution book, and also what Americans have lost in our relentless fall into the capitalist abyss? But also how far we have come, in other social aspects... This book seems especially up your alley...

Feel better!!!

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