Essays
My Lost L.A.
An essay about falling in love with the early ’80s punk and music scene in Los Angeles—where the writer moved through the subculture and a stage of life.
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Travels to Dostoevsky’s Central Asian Home
A writer explores his time in eastern Kazakhstan—meeting place of Russia and Central Asia—where Dostoevsky once served in the Czar’s army, wrote several early works, and left a legacy still felt today.
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Four Questions on Farsickness
Four Questions on Farsickness: Jennifer Lang
“What inspires my work—my muse—isn’t travel as much as my permanent residence, in the center of one of the world’s smallest, most misunderstood, most complicated, perhaps most contested and surprisingly heterogeneous countries: Israel.”
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Four Questions on Farsickness: Jenny Sadre-Orafai
“I saw sea stars clinging on sea stacks and tufted puffins walking like older men. It always comes back to water and animals and seeing animals in their habitats unbothered by humans.”
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Four Questions on Farsickness: Jill Talbot
“I can’t remember a time when I didn’t want to be Elsewhere, anywhere other than where I was, and not because there was anything wrong with Here.”
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On Writing
Books on Place: A Review of Andalucia
Andalucia by Andrew and Suzanne Edwards (I.B. Taurus, $25) Reviewed by Nina Lewallen Hufford Now...
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Place Poem: Kathy Fagan’s “Inscription”
Farsickness Journal features “Inscription,” a place poem by Kathy Fagan.
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Place Poem: “It Was Raining in Delft”
On Peter Gizzi’s “It Was Raining in Delft”: A poem featuring “the heightened, stripped-bare world of the sleep-deprived traveler.”
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