Archive for August, 2012

Goodbye Robert Hughes

Published August 7th, 2012

Goodbye Robert Hughes
Author of The Fatal Shore (A Longitude Favorite), an essential portrait of Barcelona, the gorgeously written, personal Rome (published just last year) among his many books on history and art, Robert Hughes died yesterday in the Bronx at age 74 after a long illness.  Originally from Australia (you could tell in his speech after all
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The Tao of Travel

Published August 1st, 2012

The Tao of Travel
Now in paper!. Paul Theroux celebrates 50 years of reading and travel in this inspired and generously illustrated miscellany — a ready and compulsively readable guide to great authors, great places and, naturally, his own work. He shows off with chapters variously titled: Writers Who Wrote About Places They Never Visited, Travel As An Ordeal
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