Four Questions on Farsickness: Steven Wingate
“A car could not only get you from one place to another, but actually take you from being one person to being another.”
Read MoreMegan Harlan is an award-winning essayist, poet, and author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), awarded the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, winner of the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished in Best American Essays 2018, 2019, and 2021, published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, American Poetry Review, and Colorado Review, and awarded the Arts & Letters Creative Nonfiction Prize. She is the Editor of Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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“A car could not only get you from one place to another, but actually take you from being one person to being another.”
Read More“For the past twenty years, I have gone every year to France, and after a very intense period of personal loss, I began to make pilgrimages to some of the sacred sites like Chartres Cathedral…”
Read More“Looked back upon, the period spent in Hawaii proved something close to miraculous, in that it gave me permission to create a life on my own terms.”
Read More“According to the last count, Baker’s population was sixty-eight people. It’s all wind, dust, and wild sage. It was beautiful and terrifying. I would wander around the scrub and think about how fragile life is.”
Read More“No longer immersed in the culture in which I am raised, I’m able to see my surroundings better. As a writer, I like being the stranger, the one who doesn’t fit in and scrutinizes society from the sidelines.”
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The word “farsickness” translates from fernweh (Ger.): a yearning for distant places.
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