The Undead Travel
by Avi Davis
How an English Dracula revived the Romanian tourist industry.
A House Is a Machine to Live In
by J.C. Hallman
A fictional ship full of millionaires, a real ship full of millionaires, and the birth of the modern cruise industry.
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In Pursuit of the Wild Cohiba
by Ginger Strand and James Wallenstein
An American duo seeks out the ideal Cuban cigar experience while avoiding Fidelistas, the (other) Mets, and a shady cigar-selling dwarf.
Guy Nordenson
interviewed by Scott Geiger
The structural engineer and disciple of Buckminster Fuller wants to build the Central Park of the twenty-first century—on water.
My Alaska
by August Kleinzahler
Living in un-religious Alaska with a would-be carpenter, an un-Buddhalike Buddhist, and a guy named Sweetie.
Jonathan Ames
interviewed by Andre Perry
“There’s some connection between your brain and sexuality and childhood and humiliation and power and self-loathing and affection.”
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Agnès Varda
interviewed by Sheila Heti
“The Grandmother of the Nouvelle Vague” at thirty, Varda now has more than thirty-five films—and several grandchildren—to her name.
