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The Blog of Kevin Dolgin

http://kevindolgin.wordpress.com

Kevin Dolgin is a fiction writer, travel writer for McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and author of "The Third Tower Up from the Road." This blog seeks out and highlights the best pieces of literary travel writing available online.

• Added on: Jul 20th, 2009
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: Kevin Dolgin
• Listed in: Travel Writing
• Tags: travel guide travel writing travel books mcsweeneys literary travel travel essays

Recent Posts

• The World Laughs With Travel Writers

  Posted on Friday October 2nd, 2009 at 04:29 in humor, world, comedy, corsica, afghanistan, travel writing, improv

  By PAT HARTMAN News Editor In the Davidsonian, Katie Lovett gives an account of a recent lecture delivered by travel writer Doug Lansky. (This Lansky character, by the way, turned down the offer of a steady gig from The New Yorker, so you gotta know...

• In Belgium: the Ever-alluring Town called Bruges

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 05:24 in beer, Chocolate, europe, belgium, bruges, frites, in bruges, leffe

  By PAT HARTMAN News Editor Andrew Hickey, a.k.a The Brooklyn Nomad, is into “Movies That Make You Want To Travel,” and he finds that In Bruges is one such movie. Along with the Matador site, where we found this, Hickey’s travel writ...

• Extreme Travel: Gypsies and Rubber Tramps

  Posted on Wednesday September 30th, 2009 at 04:32 in world, europe, prague, czech republic, North America, hippies, homelessness, rom, ken kesey, counterculture, gypsies, nimby

  By PAT HARTMAN News Editor What does a scaler of Everest have in common with a guy sitting on a piece of driftwood on the Oregon shore who hasn’t climbed ten feet above sea level for years? They’re both extreme travelers. For a lot of peo...

• No Voyage, Great Lies: Take a Lie-cation

  Posted on Tuesday September 29th, 2009 at 04:22 in genealogy, asia, world, thailand, bangkok, elephants, space tourism, scott carmichael, weird hotels, liecation, lie-cation

  By PAT HARTMAN News Editor Ever wondered how to survive in troubled economic times, and yet extract your share of fun from life, too? There’s an old Italian adage, “Long voyages, great lies.” Well, guess what? The world has changed...

• Travel Writing and China: The Giant Dragon of Henan and More

  Posted on Monday September 28th, 2009 at 05:15 in china, asia, history, dragons, travel writing, theme park, great wall, henan, government projects, orientology, shizu

  By PAT HARTMAN News Editor Kevin Dolgin, the author upon whose book this column embroiders, is fond of both dragons and statues. So, in a veritable explosion of inspiration, we Googled up “statue + dragon”, and found a story from the Xinj...

• Taxis of the World: Survive Them!

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 05:05 in world, tourism, transportation, taxicabs, warnings, taxis, cabs

  By PAT HARTMAN News Editor For Today’s Zaman, Kathy Hamilton collected stories about Istanbul taxi drivers, meticulously detailed anecdotes such as we might hear if we sat down with the author over a few beers. She wants us to understand that t...

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Santosh Nikam

Fantastic blog.................i really enjoyed while reading your article.. .... Keep it up

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