http://www.travelwritersnews.com For the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:06:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thanks to Laura Read for this link to Pico Iyer's Washington Post article The Writing Life: In which a writer living in Japan learns how to think in Japanese. Here's my favorite paragraph from it: "My sentences grew shorter and shorter, and more and more empty, till they looked a bit ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/pico-iyer-on-turning-japanese/ Here are the Nieman Narrative Digest's essays on craft and industry. I especially like Michael Pollan's Natural Narratives. http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/writers_news_and_resources/nieman-narrative-digest/ Here's a link to the Dolans.com Straight Talk on Money audio on decreasing your chances of geting bumped, and on your rights as a bumpee. "Despite what they want you to think, airlines don't have you completely under their thumb! Get the straight scoop on your rights as an air ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_tips_and_resources/travel-rights-on-air-flights/ Watch this video clip by Dahlia Rideout about The Hidden Truth behind Hotel Drinking Glasses. You may decide never to drink from one again. I found it on the Divine Caroline site. http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_tips_and_resources/hotel-drinking-glasses/ "Our service provides journalists with the latest breaking press releases from travel companies and organisations worldwide, together with access to images, company profiles and archive releases, PR contacts, online research tools and much more. Additionally, our 'Journalist Alert' service allows journalists to advise PRs of all their current needs."For travel ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/travel_writers_news/travmedia-distributes-travel-news-to-the-media/ BEA 2008 will be at the Los Angeles Convention Center from May 29 - June 1. New for 2008: New Title Bookstore -- With over 1500 titles and 1000 authors and publishers -- be sure not to miss it! Expanded and comprehensive podcast program ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/writers_news_and_resources/book-expo-america/ "We're a free online service that connects authors and potential audiences of all sorts, from book groups to civic organizations, from bookstores to corporate events. Authors create their own page (biography, books, tour dates and availability) and any group looking for speakers can find them and contact them directly to ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/writers_news_and_resources/booktourcom-where-audiences-and-authors-meet/ "WARNING" the site reads. "This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance... " The oh-so-addictive-and-good-for-you-too vocabulary game works like this: You're presented with a word. You click on the answer that best defines the word. If you get it right, you get a harder ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/peace_freedom_justice_diversity/freerice/ "Pull out those shiny new dayplanners and mark them thus: Litquake 2008 begins on Friday, October 3, with a smashing tribute to another famed Bay Area author at the Herbst Theater. It will steamroll through the week with fabulous events and conclude as always with the Lit Crawl on Saturday, ... http://www.travelwritersnews.com/events/classes_salons_workshops_etc/litquake-2008/ Thanks to April Orcutt for this link to a SF Chronicle article about Redroom, an intriguing social networking site "where the writers are." You'll find Amy Tan's virgin blog entry there, as well as links to many other writers' blogs and websites. http://www.travelwritersnews.com/news/writers_news_and_resources/redroom/