Nowhere travel stories

Beautiful. Transcendent. Cheeky. Hard to find a good read like this on the web. I loved it! Thanks for the effort, keep it up!

Posted by James Tucker on 30 January 2010 @ 3pm

Wonderful first issue – look forward to seeing more.

Posted by Aaron Simon on 20 February 2010 @ 3pm

Terrific. Too much dumb bunny web “up there” — this a pleasant relief. Thanks for the url, Mr Fagin.

Posted by Steve Dickison on 21 February 2010 @ 8pm

PS: Watch for Mickey’s Men. The ghost of Sunny Bono.

Posted by Steve Dickison on 21 February 2010 @ 8pm

As a lifelong “flanneur” who once lived across the street in Paris from where Gertrude Stein many years before held her famous salons, I immediately fell in love with this first issue and already crave more voyeurism and travel by association.
Where are we going next?

Posted by Robin Horton on 22 February 2010 @ 5pm

Pardon my French: it’s flâneur, not flanneur… I really need to get back across the pond.

Posted by Robin Horton on 22 February 2010 @ 5pm

As a 51-year old gypsy, and Bohemian traveler since the age of 12, I love your idea. As a child who grew up in the book store reading about everyone’s travels, to a gal who broke the mold herself and travel writes about off-the-beaten-track places, and does PR for FREE — I really loved this website. Refreshingly – back to the basics. Simple, pure, traveling notes. Watching the dophins play off of the Coronado Islands in Baja — waiting for your next issue to arrive.

Posted by Annie McLhinney-Cochran on 22 February 2010 @ 6pm

Hi. I read about Nowhere Magazine on mediabistro and think it’s a fantastic idea. I’ve done a fair share of travel writing and I agree that most publications are looking more for a shopping guide than they are any kind of insight into local culture, flavor or any indication of what makes a certain place different from the one they see every day.

I would love to contribute to your site. My background is in fashion and beauty reporting, but I’ve done a fair share of travel writing in recent years. If you’re interested I’d love to send some clips your way. Feel free to email me at the address listed above.

I look forward to hearing back from you and from reading more on your site.

Thanks.
Marilisa Racco

Posted by Marilisa Racco on 23 February 2010 @ 2pm

I got home at 6:30am after some wandering of my own, and, despite REM deprivation, the 4,495 words of Hungary kept me up past 7. I thank you for crushing todays productivity with your craft and originality. It’s good to see a fresh perspective. I’m glued, so keep it coming.

Nick Waggoner

Posted by Nick Waggoner on 25 February 2010 @ 2pm

BIG THANKS to everyone who’s read and posted to the site! We’re thrilled you like the mag and have a QUESTION for you… What are your favorite travel writing books? Here’s a start: D.H. Lawrence, “Mornings in Mexico”; Chris Ish, “The Condor and the Cow”; WH Hudson, “The Sea and the Jungle.”

TALK TO US!

-ed

Posted by admin on 3 March 2010 @ 8am

PS – Don’t forget to check out the BOOKSTORE, there are only a few copies of each book left! (Link at the bottom of the page.) We’re a reader-sponsored magazine…no ads, no PR, no money… Help pay the bills at Nowhere and buy a signed copy of one of our author’s books!

Posted by Anonymous on 9 March 2010 @ 1pm

“What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. I wanted strength, not tea parties. What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.” -Annie Dillard

This mag satisfies Dillard’s (and my) strict criteria for good writing, travel and otherwise. I’m a fan! As for favorite books, Beryl Markham’s “West With The Night” is way up there.

Happy trails,
Kate Harris

Posted by Kate Harris on 9 March 2010 @ 5pm

Bravo for your site’s lack of the “traditional navigation menu”. Just our take since we have stayed away from the lame and over-used. In other words — we get it.

Posted by StayBank on 9 March 2010 @ 6pm

Be sure to add your EMAIL address to the SUBSCRIBE window below – so we can tell you when ISSUE 2 arrives!

TX

ed

Posted by Ed on 10 March 2010 @ 8am

Hey there’s a fantastic travel inspired bookstore in New York called Idlewild. Small independent shop on the second floor; logo is a globe rendered flat and the books are organized by country. http://www.idlewildbooks.com

I’m a graphic designer slash travel-lover living in Barcelona if I can help Nowhere in anyway please let me know.

Posted by Hollis on 10 March 2010 @ 10am

so happy to have discovered this via lucia mandlik who found me on posterous somehow.

Posted by a.q.s. on 5 April 2010 @ 1am

Damn! Beautiful content, happy to have found it. How often does this mag come out? Print edition too? Tell me more!

Posted by Rich on 10 May 2010 @ 2pm

I have never believed you had to go far. You don’t have to cross an ocean or a country, just the street. That makes you a traveler. Travel is when you do something unusual. When you carve out an hour to walk down a street you have never walked, go to a farmer’s market you have never been to. That’s travel. The world is big. The world is small. Either way, you probably haven’t seen much of it.

Posted by Craig on 11 May 2010 @ 9pm

Agreed! I walked out my front door yesterday morning and didn’t come back for two hours. No destination, no purpose. I just walked around the city. I’d like to say it was inspired by the stories here, but I didn’t find this site until today. Happy to find kindred spirits out there!

Posted by Janet Wells on 12 May 2010 @ 2pm

Big thumbs up for This is your Copilot Speaking. I was hooked at the first para- looking forward to the next installment.

I also forwarded a link to about a hundred of my closest friends.

Thanks,
K

Posted by KT on 12 May 2010 @ 4pm

The co-pilot stories are hilarious! Keep ‘em coming!
(also spreading the word myself)

Sincerely,

Another Pilot from Another Airline

Posted by Anonymous on 24 May 2010 @ 12am

Comin up… A new installment will be posted each week. The first went up today.

-Ed.

Posted by admin on 24 May 2010 @ 10pm

I love the co-pilot stories &they provide a great insight into the reality of airline life for a commercial pilot. Some of it alas is lost on me due to the Amerification of the language & certain bodily functions can be a bit more descriptive than I would prefer however overall I find it very entertaining, entralling & hilarious.i look forward to each installment & I reckon if the writer went into professional writing he would make a packet such is his gift with words.

Posted by Hilary on 23 June 2010 @ 3pm

It warms my cockles to glean the enchanting confusion of passengers faced with the ugly gelatinous drudge of pilot life. Leave more comments. My frail Pilot Ego requires constant re-inflation. Ask not what your airline can do for you…

Pilot X

Posted by Anonymous on 23 June 2010 @ 8pm

Hey, this stuff is hilarious, and educating, and scary…all at once. I love your description of everyday life on the line. Flying as a flight instructor in Saudi Arabia trying not to become overwhelmed with the overwhelmingly amount of this fucking sucks is really difficult. I wonder if this site should be required reading for anyone who wants to be an airline pilot.

You shine a little light into my personal hell.

Thank you for that and please, if you could…keep it up!

Jim

Posted by Jim on 9 September 2010 @ 4pm

PS – New columns coming up in October…

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