Category: City Guide
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New York City and the Hunt for Turkish Shoes.
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in #WisdomWednesday, Art, Backpacking, Blogging, City Guide, Culture, memoir, NYC, Review, Travel, travel writing, USA, writingIt was during my long and dusty sojourn in the Middle East, wandering collapsed, ruined villages, haggling through ancient markets that I first encountered the yemeni, or Turkish slipper. Now, i’m not the most fashion-driven or even fashionable guy, but the effortless, dare I say, timeless cool. Travelblogger and Novelist, Nicholas Andriani takes on fashion…
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Sketching Sights: Istanbul, City on the Edge (Art. Travel. Writing. Islam. Architecture)
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The Bosphorus splits Istanbul in two parts. A rift in the madness of Europe and Asia, drifting between bodies of fresh and salt water cooling the heated passion of a most ancient urban jungle. The hot, hot, heat of human movement generates organized chaos as this great strait, this rift, cushions the blow, keeping this…
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How Not To Write in Cafes: Confessions of an Antisocial.
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in #WisdomWednesday, Art, Author, Authors, Blogging, Book Blog, books, bookstagram, City Guide, Confession, copywriting, Flash Poem, Flash Poetry, Kansas City, literary fiction, literary nonfiction, memoir, networking, nonfiction, Poem, poet, Poetry, publishing, rough draft, sketch, spontaneous combustion, stream-of-consciousness, success, travel writing, travelblog, travelblogger, writingConfessions of an Antisocial Writer. Cafes? Don’t do it. For he love of all things Didion! I mean, I get it, there is this undeniable sex appeal. This intrique: scattering your notes across that old bistro set, the heady demitasse begging for your lips: what’s the WiFi code? Nah, I write longhand.
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The Sabah House Rules: New York City and the Hunt for Turkish Yemenis
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in Art, Backpacking, Blogging, City Guide, Culture, memoir, NYC, Review, Travel, travel writing, USA, writingIt was nearly a year ago that I discovered the Sabah Dealer. A chance meeting on Twitter led me to this exotic, almost whimsical Instagram where I was transported to Anatolia. To the bazaars, the buskers and baksheesh and medieval villages. To a world still crafted by hand. I soon found that behind the Sabah Dealer’s travels were shoes–Sabah’s…
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Abbot Kinney Part II: ZenBunni
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We stumbled away from Another Kind of Sunrise high on good food and despite this the lure of chocolate never wore off. I felt like a child longing for a view into Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory. Knowing that what lies beyond contained the secret of cacao alchemica; that is, the transformation of cacao from plant to…