Four Questions on Farsickness: Carolina De Robertis
“I was an immigrant kid, first in Europe and then in the U.S., and this gave me a constant pervasive sense of there being an ‘elsewhere’…”
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.
Find more about me on:
Here are my most recent posts
“I was an immigrant kid, first in Europe and then in the U.S., and this gave me a constant pervasive sense of there being an ‘elsewhere’…”
Read More“I boarded the tall ship Antigua and sailed for two weeks up the west coast of Spitsbergen, the largest island in the Svalbard archipelago…”
Read More“The open spaces of Montana and Wyoming infused me with the desire to write a third novel…”
Read More“I was a Fulbright professor in Oldenburg, staying for a year, and the room I rented was in the town’s very tiny red light district, arranged by my boss as, I think, a kind of joke.”
Read More“The commune smelled of cow manure, unwashed hair. We held pig roasts, ran through the woods in fifty person games—it was wonderful and chaotic.”
Read MoreFarsickness explores place through creative writing: An online journal of literary travel.
The word “farsickness” translates from fernweh (Ger.): a yearning for distant places.
Farsickness is dedicated to featuring creative writing on place—but we need your help to sustain overhead costs. Please support the journal by buying the cool merch at the Shop link. Thank you!
author interview Berkeley Buenos aires California children's literature Colorado Cuba Emily Dickinson England farsickness fiction Four Questions on Farsickness France Iceland Idaho India Ireland Italy libraries London Los Angeles maps Marin County Massimo Vignelli Mexico Montana Nevada New Mexico New York City Oregon Paris place poem poetry Portugal San Francisco Seattle short stories South Dakota Spain story subway Swiss Alps United Kingdom writing on place Wyoming
© 2023 Farsickness. All Rights Reserved.