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Tunku Varadarajan asks Paul Theroux, in jest, “whether he’s willing, as the originator of the travel-writing genre, to apologize” for all the bad travel writing around us. Theroux replies:

For setting these people loose? No, of course not! There are so many forms of travel writing now . . . ‘Where I went on my bike,’ or ‘My wife and I went somewhere and didn’t we have a jolly time,’ or ‘I don’t think I have anything to write about so I think I’ll take a trip and write about that.’ The ones that [...] Read full story