Rolf Potts

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Books by Rolf

Podcast: Deviate with Rolf

Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand April 16, 2024
Essential tips and strategies for telling travel stories, with Andrew McCarthy March 12, 2024
What it’s like to spend a full year traveling within a day’s radius of your home February 13, 2024
Sports, superstitions, and sacraments: A Deviate Super Bowl Special (2024 remix) February 4, 2024
Tim Ferriss and Rolf discuss travel, time wealth, and “success management” January 9, 2024

Recent Blog Posts

“The most beautiful thing in the world,” from Chloe Cooper Jones’s “Easy Beauty” April 24, 2024
In Praise of Loitering, by Ross Gay April 10, 2024
“How to Write About Africa,” by Binyavanga Wainaina March 26, 2024
“The Faces,” by Robert Creeley (1983) March 7, 2024
To show and to tell: How to write nonfiction from a “double perspective” February 22, 2024
Notes on “Walk and Talk” (a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand) February 8, 2024

Travel Writer Interviews

Travel Writer: Jonathan DeHart April 1, 2024
Travel Writer: Aaron Millar March 1, 2024
Travel Writer: Bart Schaneman February 1, 2024
Travel Writer: Mike Nixon January 1, 2024
Travel Writer: Claire Polders December 1, 2023
Travel Writer: Marlin Darrah November 1, 2023

Books

The Vagabond’s Way

The Vagabond’s Way

Lands of Lost Borders

Tools of Titans

The 33 1/3 B-sides

Vagabonding

Souvenir

Marco Polo Didn’t Go There

The Misadventures of Wenamun

The Geto Boys (33 1/3)

Recent Podcasts

Walk and Talk: Notes from a peripatetic salon across northern Thailand

Essential tips and strategies for telling travel stories, with Andrew McCarthy

What it’s like to spend a full year traveling within a day’s radius of your home

Sports, superstitions, and sacraments: A Deviate Super Bowl Special (2024 remix)

Tim Ferriss and Rolf discuss travel, time wealth, and “success management”

The best journeys explore mindscapes as well as landscapes (book club remix)

Going abroad for love, and travel writing that says something new about a place

Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club redo)

Travel memoir lab: Truth, luck, & multi-genre storytelling (with Tom Bissell)

Seek places where your very presence makes you interesting (book club remix)

Travel Writers

Travel Writer: Jonathan DeHart

Travel Writer: Aaron Millar

Travel Writer: Bart Schaneman

Travel Writer: Mike Nixon

Travel Writer: Claire Polders

Travel Writer: Marlin Darrah

Travel Writer: Tharik Hussain

Travel Writer: Nguher Zaki

Travel Writer: Ketti Wilhelm

Travel Writer: Michael McCarthy