Four Questions on Farsickness: Tania Malik
“Even now, whenever I am at an airport, I still experience a mixture of longing and excitement, the feeling that I am on the cusp of something extraordinary.”
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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“Even now, whenever I am at an airport, I still experience a mixture of longing and excitement, the feeling that I am on the cusp of something extraordinary.”
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The word “farsickness” translates from fernweh (Ger.): a yearning for distant places.
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