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'''Rolf Potts''' (born October 13, 1970) is an American travel writer, essayist, and author. He has written two books, ''Vagabonding'' (Random House, 2003) and ''Marco Polo Didn't Go There'' (Travelers Tales, 2008), and his travel writing has appeared in ''[[National Geographic Traveler]]'', ''[[Outside (magazine)|Outside]]'', [[Salon.com]], [[Slate.com]], ''[[The Guardian]]'', and ''[[World Hum]]''. His non-travel essays and criticism have appeared in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[The Believer (magazine)|The Believer]]'', the ''[[New York Times Magazine]]'', and the digital versions of ''[[The Nation]]'' and ''[[The Atlantic]]''.<ref name="rolfpotts"> {{cite web | url=http://www.rolfpotts.com/bio/ |
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'''Rolf Potts''' is a [[travel writer]] whose work has appeared in [[National Geographic Society|National Geographic]] Traveler, the [[New York Times Magazine]], [[Slate.com]], [[Condé Nast Traveler]], Outside, The Believer, [[The Guardian]], [[National Public Radio]], the [[Travel Channel]], [[Salon.com]] and [[World Hum]].<ref name="rolfpotts"> {{cite web |
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}} </ref> His travel advice book ''Vagabonding'', which has been translated into several foreign languages, is in its tenth printing. He won the Lowell Thomas Award in 2003, 2004,<ref name="skyways"> {{cite web |
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}} </ref> 2006<ref> {{cite web |
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| title=2006 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Winners |
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}} </ref> and 2007.<ref> {{cite web |
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}} </ref> Potts is the summer writer-in-residence at the Paris American Academy.<ref name="skyways" /> |
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Potts directs the summer creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy,<ref name="paa"> {{cite web |
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On [http://www.rolfpotts.com/writers/profiles.php Rolf Potts' Vagabonding blog], archives of more than 100 interviews with travel writers provide insight to the motivations of globe-trotting authors. Among the writers Potts has interviewed are: [[Arthur Frommer]], Gayle Keck, [[Gary Lee (journalist)|Gary Lee]], [[L. Peat O'Neil]], [[Tom Miller]], C. M. Mayo, [[Simon Winchester]] and Amanda Jones. |
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| url= http://pariswritingworkshop.com/instructors |
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| title=Paris Writing Workshop: Instructors |
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}} </ref> and he was the 2011-2012 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref> {{cite web |
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| url=http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/about/news/20111110_henryford.php |
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| title=Rolf Potts and the Henry Ford of Literature |
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| publisher=University of Pennsylvania |
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}} </ref> |
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== Early life == |
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In 2010, Rolf Potts traveled around the world in six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind.<ref>Hilton, Spud. [http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-09-19/travel/24010407_1_baggage-travel-scottevest "No-luggage travel packs more potential"], ''San Francisco Chronicle'', September 19, 2010.</ref> |
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The son of schoolteachers, Potts grew up in [[Wichita, Kansas]] and graduated from [[Wichita North High School]] in 1989.<ref name="pw"> {{cite web | url= http://www.pw.org/content/world_over_profile_rolf_potts_0 |
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| first = Frank |
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| date = November/December 2008 |
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| title= The World Over: A Profile of Rolf Potts |
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| publisher=''Poets & Writers'' |
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}} </ref> He began college at [[Friends University]], spending his summers working for an Outward-Bound-style wilderness camp in Colorado<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.goseewrite.com/2011/03/interview-rolf-potts-vagabonding-lucky-13-questions/ |
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| title= Interview with Rolf Potts of Vagabonding |
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| publisher=GoSeeWrite.com |
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}} </ref> and hopping freight trains across the Pacific Northwest.<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.transitionsabroad.com/listings/travel/independent/rolf_potts_interview.shtml |
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| title=Rolf Potts on Long-Term Travel |
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}} </ref> He later transferred to [[George Fox University]], where he graduated with a degree in writing and literature in 1993.<ref name="pw" /> |
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After graduation Potts worked as a landscaper in Seattle for a year before embarking on an 8-month [[Volkswagen Type 2 (T3)|Volkswagen Vanagon]] journey around North America.<ref name="pw" /> Potts later moved to [[Busan]], [[South Korea]], where he taught English at technical college for two years.<ref name="pw" /> He started writing travel stories for Salon.com in 1998, while still living in Korea.<ref name="pw" /> |
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== Bibliography == |
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* Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers' Tales, 2008) |
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*In 2003 Rolf released Vagabonding, which is about taking time off work for overseas long-term travel. From his own experiences he gives advice, chronicles adventures and shows how one can travel and live on their terms. |
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== Career == |
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== Published in anthologies == |
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In 1999, while traveling in [[Thailand]], Potts attempted to infiltrate the film-set of a [[Leonardo DiCaprio]] movie called ''[[The Beach (novel)|The Beach]]''.<ref> {{cite web |
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*The Best Travel Writing 2009 |
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*The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2, [[W.W. Norton]] |
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| first = Rolf |
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*The Best Travel Writing 2008 |
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| date = 30 January 1999 |
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*Encounters with the Middle East |
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| url=http://www.salon.com/1999/01/30/feature1_9/ |
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*The Best American Travel Writing 2006, [[Houghton Mifflin]] |
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| title=Storming "The Beach" |
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*Tales From Nowhere, [[Lonely Planet]] |
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| publisher=Salon.com |
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*The Best Travel Writing 2006 |
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}} </ref> His essay about the experience, "Storming 'The Beach'," was chosen by [[Bill Bryson]] for inclusion in ''The American Travel Writing 2000'', and led to an ongoing biweekly travel column at Salon.com.<ref name="pw" /> ''Poets & Writers'' later noted that, "the story, far from being an account of a simple-minded stunt, was actually a fantastic narrative mixed with meditations on the 'shadowlike ironies of travel culture,' [[Walker Percy]]'s 'traveler's angst,' and 'the greater struggle for individuality in the information age.' It was, in other words, a compelling blend of storytelling and reflection, a profound look at where Potts found himself, both in place and time."<ref name="pw" /> |
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*What Color is Your Jockstrap? |
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*The World is a Kitchen |
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===Journalism=== |
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*By the Seat of My Pants, Lonely Planet |
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After two years as the "Vagabonding" columnist at Salon, Potts began to contribute travel dispatches from [[Asia]], [[South America]], and [[Europe]]<ref name="pw" /> to a variety of venues, including ''[[National Public Radio]]'', ''[[Conde Nast Traveler]]'', ''[[National Geographic Adventure (magazine)|National Geographic Adventure]]'', ''Islands'', the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle Magazine]]'', and ''The Smart Set''. A number of these articles were later anthologized, including "Tantric Sex For Dilletantes," a ''Perceptive Travel'' story that was chosen for ''The Best American Travel Writing 2006'', and "The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra," a ''World Hum'' story that appeared in ''The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2''.<ref name="rolfpotts" /> |
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*The Best Travel Writing 2005 |
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*Travel Writing, Lonely Planet |
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Potts has also written about U.S. military reading lists for ''The New Yorker'',<ref> {{cite web |
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*The Best Travelers' Tales 2004 |
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*The Kindness of Strangers, Lonely Planet |
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*Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure |
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| url=http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2011/05/02/110502ta_talk_potts |
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*A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad, Lonely Planet |
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| date = 2 May 2011 |
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*Travelers' Tales: Turkey |
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| title=Canon Fodder |
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*Salon.com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance, Villard/Random House |
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| publisher=''The New Yorker'' |
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*Best American Travel Writing 2000, Houghton Mifflin |
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}} </ref> Islamist [[Sayyid Qutb]]'s travel memoirs for ''The Believer'',<ref> {{cite web |
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*Adrenaline 2000: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival |
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*Not So Funny When it Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure |
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*Travelers' Tales: Greece |
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| url= http://www.believermag.com/issues/200610/?read=article_potts |
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| date = October 2006 |
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| title=The Tourist Who Influenced the Terrorists |
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| publisher=''The Believer'' |
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}} </ref> straight-to-DVD [[mockbuster]] B-movies for the ''New York Times Magazine'',<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/07/magazine/07wwln-essay-t.html |
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| date = 7 October 2007 |
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| title=The New B Movie |
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| publisher=''The New York Times Magazine'' |
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}} </ref> and [[Allen Ginsberg]]'s poem "[[Wichita Vortex Sutra]]" for ''The Nation''.<ref> {{cite web |
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| last = Potts |
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| first = Rolf |
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| url= http://www.thenation.com/article/last-antiwar-poem |
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| date = 14 November 2006 |
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| title=The Last Anti-War Poem |
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| publisher=''The Nation'' |
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}} </ref> He has interviewed [[Paul Theroux]] and [[Pico Iyer]] for ''The Atlantic'',<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.theatlantic.com/rolf-potts/ |
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| title=Article archive: Rolf Potts |
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| publisher=''The Atlantic'' |
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}} </ref> and his ongoing [http://www.rolfpotts.com/writers/profiles.php Q&A series] at RolfPotts.com features profiles of more than 100 travel writers, novelists, and literary journalists, including [[David Grann]], [[Peter Hessler]], [[Tom Bissell]], [[Gary Shteyngart]], [[Tim Cahill (writer)|Tim Cahill]], and [[Tony Horwitz]]. |
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===Books=== |
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''Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel'', Potts' first book, mixes practical advice with philosophical insights about the value of travel. Upon its release in 2003, the ''[[Boston Globe]]'' called it "a valuable contribution to our thinking, not only about travel, but about life and work."<ref> {{cite web |
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| last = Morgan |
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| first = Stephen |
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| date = 2 February 2003 |
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| title=Advice for the vagabond in all of us |
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| publisher=''Boston Globe'' |
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}} </ref> ''[[USA Today]]'' dubbed the author "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age"<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2003-09-22-potts_x.htm |
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| date = 10 January 2003 |
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| title= For Rolf Potts, every day is a winding road |
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| publisher=''USA Today'' |
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}} </ref> (Potts has downplayed the comparison<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-books/we_dont_really_know_jack_20070905/ |
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| date = 5 September 2007 |
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| title=We Don't (Really) Know Jack |
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| publisher=''World Hum'' |
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}} </ref>). The book has been through more than a dozen printings, and has been widely translated worldwide.<ref name="rolfpotts" /> |
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Potts' second travel book, ''Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer'', debuted in 2008. A collection of previously published travel essays, each chapter contains endnote-commentary that explores its own creation. In an interview with ''World Hum'', Potts said that the endnotes aim to "collect some of the elements that had been left out of my stories and use them to remind the reader of the gap between narrative and experience, traveler and writer, truth and presentation. I wanted to hint at how stories themselves—which by nature must be self-contained in order to be readable—emerge out of a much more complicated world of lived experience."<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-interviews/rolf_potts_revelations_from_a_postmodern_travel_writer_20080918/ |
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| title=Rolf Potts: Revelations From a Postmodern Travel Writer |
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| publisher=''World Hum'' |
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}} </ref> The book won a Lowell Thomas Award in the United States, and in 2009 became the first American-authored book to win Italy's [[Bruce Chatwin]] Prize for international travel writing.<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://travelerstales.com/002653.shtml |
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| title= Marco Polo Didn't Go There Wins 2 Awards |
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| publisher=Travelers Tales |
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}} </ref> |
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===TV and video=== |
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Potts was featured in several episodes of the 2007 [[National Geographic Adventure]] documentary ''Odyssey'',<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2765650/ |
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| title= Rolf Potts |
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| publisher=Internet Movie Database |
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}} </ref> and has appeared as a commentator on the [[Travel Channel]] shows "25 Mind-Blowing Escapes"<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gwW4QyQGg |
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| title= Angkor Wat - "25 Mind-Blowing Escapes" |
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| publisher=Travel Channel |
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}} </ref> and "21 Sexiest Beaches."<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur7ud9x-moU |
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| title= Ipanema - "21 Sexiest Beaches" |
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| publisher=Travel Channel |
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}} </ref> He also hosted the 2008 Travel Channel special "American Pilgrim."<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_gwW4QyQGg |
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| title= American Pilgrim excerpt - "The Brewer" |
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| publisher=Travel Channel |
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}} </ref> Potts poked fun at his own TV appearances while analyzing 80 consecutive hours of Travel Channel programming in a 2011 gonzo-critique of travel-TV for Gadling.com.<ref> {{cite web |
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| first = Rolf |
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| url= http://www.gadling.com/2011/02/27/around-the-world-in-80-hours-of-travel-tv/ |
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| date = 27 February 2011 |
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| title=Around the World in 80 Hours (Of Travel TV) |
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| publisher=Gadling.com |
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}} </ref> |
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In 2010 Potts wrote, hosted and co-produced (with Justin Glow) a 22-episode web video series<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.rtwblog.com/videos/ |
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| title= Videos |
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| publisher=RTWBlog.com |
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}} </ref> that documented his successful attempt to travel around the world for six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind.<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/nov/06/my-travels-rolf-potts-without-luggage |
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| title= My travels: Rolf Potts goes round the world with no luggage |
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| publisher=''The Guardian'' |
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}} </ref> |
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== Personal life == |
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When not traveling, Potts lives in a small farmhouse on 30 acres of land in rural [[Saline County, Kansas]].<ref name="paa" /> He has directed the summer writing workshop at the Paris American Academy since 2005,<ref name="paa" /> and he has given guest lectures at schools and festivals around the world, including [[Authors@Google]] in New York,<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPXHZUEmD8Y |
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| title= Authors@Google: Rolf Potts |
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| publisher=Google.com |
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}} </ref> the Summer Literary Seminars in [[Russia]],<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://sumlitsem.org/pastfaculty.html |
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| title= Past Faculty |
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| publisher=Summer Literary Seminars |
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}} </ref> the DO Lectures in [[Wales]],<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.dolectures.com/lectures/timewealth/ |
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| title= Rolf Potts: Time = Wealth |
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| publisher=The Do Lectures |
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}} </ref> [[Lismore, County Waterford|Lismore]] Festival of Travel Writing in [[Ireland]],<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://blog.lismoreimmrama.com/2011/05/famous-travel-writers-rolf-potts-and.html |
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| title= Rolf Potts and Alex Von Tunzelmann Feature at Immrama Festival 2011 |
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| publisher=Lismore Festival of Travel Writing |
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}} </ref> and [[Iowa State University]]'s Symposium on Wilderness and the Creative Imagination.<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= http://www.iowastatedaily.com/calendar/lectures/event_3c856368-1d22-11e1-86ee-001871e3ce6c.html |
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| title= On Travel Writing - Anthony Doerr and Rolf Potts |
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| publisher=Iowa State Daily |
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}} </ref> In the spring of 2012 he taught an undergraduate-level travel-writing class at the University of Pennsylvania.<ref> {{cite web |
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| url= https://www.english.upenn.edu/People/RolfPotts |
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| title= Department of English: Rolf Potts |
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| publisher=University of Pennsylvania |
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}} </ref> |
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== References == |
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== External links == |
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*[http://www.rolfpotts.com/ Rolf Potts], official website |
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* {{cite news |
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*[http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/05/a-conversation-with-rolf-potts-travel-writer/238441/ A Conversation With Rolf Potts, Travel Writer], ''The Atlantic'' (2011) |
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*[http://www.dolectures.com/lectures/timewealth/ DO Lecture: Rolf Potts] (2009) |
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*[http://www.pw.org/content/world_over_profile_rolf_potts_0 The World Over: A Profile of Rolf Potts], ''Poets & Writers'' (2008) |
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| url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/07/rolf-potts-budget-travel-guide |
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*[http://www.worldhum.com/features/travel-interviews/rolf_potts_revelations_from_a_postmodern_travel_writer_20080918/ Rolf Potts: Revelations from a Postmodern Travel Writer], ''World Hum'' (2008) |
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| title= Around the world on shoestring |
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*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPXHZUEmD8Y Rolf Potts: One-hour lecture] Authors@Google (2007) |
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| publisher= The Guardian |
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*[http://wayneyang.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/rolf-potts-interview/ Rolf Potts interview] Eight Diagrams (2006) |
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| date= 2009-02-07 |
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| url= http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2008/09/i_recently_interviewed_rolf_po.html |
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| title= Interview with Rolf Potts on his new book and on the "tourist" versus "traveler" debate |
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| publisher= [[Newsweek Magazine]]/Budget Travel |
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| date= 2008-09-16 |
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Revision as of 23:05, 14 May 2012
Rolf Potts (born October 13, 1970) is an American travel writer, essayist, and author. He has written two books, Vagabonding (Random House, 2003) and Marco Polo Didn't Go There (Travelers Tales, 2008), and his travel writing has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Outside, Salon.com, Slate.com, The Guardian, and World Hum. His non-travel essays and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Believer, the New York Times Magazine, and the digital versions of The Nation and The Atlantic.[1]
Potts directs the summer creative writing workshop at the Paris American Academy,[2] and he was the 2011-2012 ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.[3]
Early life
The son of schoolteachers, Potts grew up in Wichita, Kansas and graduated from Wichita North High School in 1989.[4] He began college at Friends University, spending his summers working for an Outward-Bound-style wilderness camp in Colorado[5] and hopping freight trains across the Pacific Northwest.[6] He later transferred to George Fox University, where he graduated with a degree in writing and literature in 1993.[4]
After graduation Potts worked as a landscaper in Seattle for a year before embarking on an 8-month Volkswagen Vanagon journey around North America.[4] Potts later moved to Busan, South Korea, where he taught English at technical college for two years.[4] He started writing travel stories for Salon.com in 1998, while still living in Korea.[4]
Career
In 1999, while traveling in Thailand, Potts attempted to infiltrate the film-set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie called The Beach.[7] His essay about the experience, "Storming 'The Beach'," was chosen by Bill Bryson for inclusion in The American Travel Writing 2000, and led to an ongoing biweekly travel column at Salon.com.[4] Poets & Writers later noted that, "the story, far from being an account of a simple-minded stunt, was actually a fantastic narrative mixed with meditations on the 'shadowlike ironies of travel culture,' Walker Percy's 'traveler's angst,' and 'the greater struggle for individuality in the information age.' It was, in other words, a compelling blend of storytelling and reflection, a profound look at where Potts found himself, both in place and time."[4]
Journalism
After two years as the "Vagabonding" columnist at Salon, Potts began to contribute travel dispatches from Asia, South America, and Europe[4] to a variety of venues, including National Public Radio, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic Adventure, Islands, the San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, and The Smart Set. A number of these articles were later anthologized, including "Tantric Sex For Dilletantes," a Perceptive Travel story that was chosen for The Best American Travel Writing 2006, and "The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra," a World Hum story that appeared in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2.[1]
Potts has also written about U.S. military reading lists for The New Yorker,[8] Islamist Sayyid Qutb's travel memoirs for The Believer,[9] straight-to-DVD mockbuster B-movies for the New York Times Magazine,[10] and Allen Ginsberg's poem "Wichita Vortex Sutra" for The Nation.[11] He has interviewed Paul Theroux and Pico Iyer for The Atlantic,[12] and his ongoing Q&A series at RolfPotts.com features profiles of more than 100 travel writers, novelists, and literary journalists, including David Grann, Peter Hessler, Tom Bissell, Gary Shteyngart, Tim Cahill, and Tony Horwitz.
Books
Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, Potts' first book, mixes practical advice with philosophical insights about the value of travel. Upon its release in 2003, the Boston Globe called it "a valuable contribution to our thinking, not only about travel, but about life and work."[13] USA Today dubbed the author "Jack Kerouac for the Internet Age"[14] (Potts has downplayed the comparison[15]). The book has been through more than a dozen printings, and has been widely translated worldwide.[1]
Potts' second travel book, Marco Polo Didn't Go There: Stories and Revelations From One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer, debuted in 2008. A collection of previously published travel essays, each chapter contains endnote-commentary that explores its own creation. In an interview with World Hum, Potts said that the endnotes aim to "collect some of the elements that had been left out of my stories and use them to remind the reader of the gap between narrative and experience, traveler and writer, truth and presentation. I wanted to hint at how stories themselves—which by nature must be self-contained in order to be readable—emerge out of a much more complicated world of lived experience."[16] The book won a Lowell Thomas Award in the United States, and in 2009 became the first American-authored book to win Italy's Bruce Chatwin Prize for international travel writing.[17]
TV and video
Potts was featured in several episodes of the 2007 National Geographic Adventure documentary Odyssey,[18] and has appeared as a commentator on the Travel Channel shows "25 Mind-Blowing Escapes"[19] and "21 Sexiest Beaches."[20] He also hosted the 2008 Travel Channel special "American Pilgrim."[21] Potts poked fun at his own TV appearances while analyzing 80 consecutive hours of Travel Channel programming in a 2011 gonzo-critique of travel-TV for Gadling.com.[22]
In 2010 Potts wrote, hosted and co-produced (with Justin Glow) a 22-episode web video series[23] that documented his successful attempt to travel around the world for six weeks with no luggage or bags of any kind.[24]
Personal life
When not traveling, Potts lives in a small farmhouse on 30 acres of land in rural Saline County, Kansas.[2] He has directed the summer writing workshop at the Paris American Academy since 2005,[2] and he has given guest lectures at schools and festivals around the world, including Authors@Google in New York,[25] the Summer Literary Seminars in Russia,[26] the DO Lectures in Wales,[27] Lismore Festival of Travel Writing in Ireland,[28] and Iowa State University's Symposium on Wilderness and the Creative Imagination.[29] In the spring of 2012 he taught an undergraduate-level travel-writing class at the University of Pennsylvania.[30]
References
- ^ a b c "Bio". Official site.
- ^ a b c "Paris Writing Workshop: Instructors". Paris American Academy.
- ^ "Rolf Potts and the Henry Ford of Literature". University of Pennsylvania.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Bures, Frank (November/December 2008). "The World Over: A Profile of Rolf Potts". Poets & Writers.
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(help) - ^ "Interview with Rolf Potts of Vagabonding". GoSeeWrite.com.
- ^ "Rolf Potts on Long-Term Travel". Transitions Abroad.
- ^ Potts, Rolf (30 January 1999). "Storming "The Beach"". Salon.com.
- ^ Potts, Rolf (2 May 2011). "Canon Fodder". The New Yorker.
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(help) - ^ Potts, Rolf (October 2006). "The Tourist Who Influenced the Terrorists". The Believer.
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(help) - ^ Potts, Rolf (7 October 2007). "The New B Movie". The New York Times Magazine.
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(help) - ^ Potts, Rolf (14 November 2006). "The Last Anti-War Poem". The Nation.
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(help) - ^ "Article archive: Rolf Potts". The Atlantic.
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(help) - ^ Morgan, Stephen (2 February 2003). "Advice for the vagabond in all of us". Boston Globe.
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(help) - ^ "For Rolf Potts, every day is a winding road". USA Today. 10 January 2003.
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(help) - ^ Potts, Rolf (5 September 2007). "We Don't (Really) Know Jack". World Hum.
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(help) - ^ "Rolf Potts: Revelations From a Postmodern Travel Writer". World Hum.
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(help) - ^ "Marco Polo Didn't Go There Wins 2 Awards". Travelers Tales.
- ^ "Rolf Potts". Internet Movie Database.
- ^ "Angkor Wat - "25 Mind-Blowing Escapes"". Travel Channel.
- ^ "Ipanema - "21 Sexiest Beaches"". Travel Channel.
- ^ "American Pilgrim excerpt - "The Brewer"". Travel Channel.
- ^ Potts, Rolf (27 February 2011). "Around the World in 80 Hours (Of Travel TV)". Gadling.com.
- ^ "Videos". RTWBlog.com.
- ^ "My travels: Rolf Potts goes round the world with no luggage". The Guardian.
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(help) - ^ "Authors@Google: Rolf Potts". Google.com.
- ^ "Past Faculty". Summer Literary Seminars.
- ^ "Rolf Potts: Time = Wealth". The Do Lectures.
- ^ "Rolf Potts and Alex Von Tunzelmann Feature at Immrama Festival 2011". Lismore Festival of Travel Writing.
- ^ "On Travel Writing - Anthony Doerr and Rolf Potts". Iowa State Daily.
- ^ "Department of English: Rolf Potts". University of Pennsylvania.
External links
- Rolf Potts, official website
- A Conversation With Rolf Potts, Travel Writer, The Atlantic (2011)
- DO Lecture: Rolf Potts (2009)
- The World Over: A Profile of Rolf Potts, Poets & Writers (2008)
- Rolf Potts: Revelations from a Postmodern Travel Writer, World Hum (2008)
- Rolf Potts: One-hour lecture Authors@Google (2007)
- Rolf Potts interview Eight Diagrams (2006)