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The World Tour Compatibility Test: Tokyo Continues…

Monday, January 8th, 2007

by Elizabeth Koch
Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai, Beijing, and part one of Tokyo.
The next morning we [...]

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Tokyo, Part 1

Thursday, January 4th, 2007

by Elizabeth Koch
Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai and Beijing.
On the flight to Tokyo, Todd sleeps with his [...]

“Getting Lucky” by David Ferris

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

We SMITHs tend to be pasty bespectacled urbanites who spend our days tethered to coffee cups and iBooks and never hike farther than the six flights up to our apartments. (Okay fine, speak for yourself, Rachel.) Still, I’m especially excited to present a terrific first person piece that couldn’t be more different from my own [...]

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Beijing

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

by Elizabeth Koch
Part travelogue and part convoluted love story, The World Tour Compatibility Test is a series of true stories set in exotic locales, as two American writers decide whether to break up or move in together. Click to catch up on Shanghai.

We wake up early and re-stuff our bags and head [...]

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Shanghai

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

by Elizabeth Koch

Our trip begins the same way that our relationship began, six months earlier. Bickering.
“Come on, I want to have fun!” Todd moans an hour into our flight to Shanghai. He bites my arm. I slap him.
“I’m working.”
“You don’t know how to manage your time.” He pouts, and flips open his Game Boy. He’s [...]

“The World Tour Compatibility Test” by Elizabeth Koch

Friday, December 1st, 2006

I’m thrilled to announce Memoirville’s newest feature, The World Tour Compatibility Test by Elizabeth Koch! This ten-part series is part travelogue and part convoluted love story. Read for the rich descriptions of exotic countries you’ve never seen; read for the so-familiar-it-hurts observations of imperfect people crashing in and out of love. Or stop reading [...]

The Night Train by ZP Heller

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

When I try to explain the kinds of storytelling I’m looking for, I tend to use the words “personal” and “individual” interchangeably. Then a piece like this one comes along and reminds me that isn’t quite right. In The Night Train, ZP Heller reaches outside his individual thoughts and tells an intensely personal story of [...]

The Love List by Anna Lappé

Saturday, November 4th, 2006

Anna Lappé is a nationally recognized author, public speaker and cofounder of the Small Planet Institute and Small Planet Fund. Her most recent book is Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen. She has more ideas on food, sustainability, globalization, hunger, and social change than just about anyone, but she doesn’t have a clue how [...]

Click Your Heels Together Three Times…

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Can you go home again? Even if home no longer exists? What if it was never home in the first place?
Russian-American writer Margaret Gelbwasser explores questions of cultural identity in her novels, short stories, and essays. “Blending the Red with the White and the Blue,” which she contributed to the anthology Waking Up American: [...]

Foul-mouthed In Fifth Grade

Wednesday, September 27th, 2006

Scott Janes is a an actor who has rescued or arrested almost every major character in daytime, as well as appeared in Bilge Ebiri’s excellent film, New Guy. He is also the author of several screenplays.
When I was 10 years old my parents switched me from public to private school to help me overcome [...]

 
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