Thursday, March 26, 2020

On My Radar:

Try to Get Lost: Essays on Travel and Place
by Joan Frank
University of New Mexico Press
Hardcover

From the publisher's website:

Through the author’s travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media’s depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word “hotel,” and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate, inhabited place—the “vastest real estate we know,” with a “stunningly short” lease.

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