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World Tour Compatibility Test Archive

Interview: Heather Sellers, author of You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know: A True Story of Family, Face Blindness, and Forgiveness

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Heather Sellers, author of the new memoir You Don’t Look Like Anyone I Know, talks with Vivian Chum about face blindness, writing memoir, and family.

Book Trailers, Franzen, and Fury

Monday, August 30th, 2010

Jonathan Franzen recently voiced his distaste for book trailers (while making one himself for his new book, Freedom). “This might be a good place for me to register my profound discomfort at having to make videos like this,” he says. “To me, the point of a novel is to take you to a still place. [...]

Interview: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, author of When Skateboards Will Be Free

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s parents devoted their lives to the Socialist Workers Party, and they did their best to make sure their son followed in their revolutionary footsteps. Rebecca Touger talks to him about family, politics, and life as a young Trotskyite.

My Life in Lists

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

Some people keep journals. Stacy Abramson makes lists. The sum of her life with bullet points and photographs is just as revealing as a 2,000-word essay. Read her piece, “My Life in Lists,” and make a list of your own.

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Grand Finale

Thursday, May 3rd, 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, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, two entries in [...]

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Back in Tokyo, Part 2

Tuesday, April 17th, 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, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, two entries in [...]

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Back in Tokyo, Part 1

Friday, March 30th, 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, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, two entries in [...]

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Kyoto, Part 2

Thursday, March 1st, 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, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, two entries in [...]

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Kyoto

Monday, February 19th, 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, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, and two entries [...]

The World Tour Compatibility Test: Nara Continues…

Sunday, January 28th, 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, Tokyo, a little more Tokyo, and the beginning [...]

 
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