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The Percentage Rises
Following on the heels of a wonderfully convivial reading at Brown Dog Books in Hinesburg, Vermont, back in late August, and a remarkably thoughtful and engaging interview with Ian Williams on WJFF radio (which also includes discussion of the Endangered Alphabets Project), comes a fine review from a highly selective source: Tim Leffel, editor of [...]
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Tagged interview, perceptive travel, review, thirty percent, travel, travel books, travel writing
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Monsoon Photo Contest!
Photo credit: Kiran Kumar PY Pilly. Licensed through Creative Commons.
A major weakness of Thirty Percent Chance of Enlightenment is that it has no photos. My fault: I find it very hard to think like a writer and a photographer at the same time. As a result, the photos I shot while I was in India [...]
Thirty Percent: The Details
First, this word from my publicist:
Often hilarious, ultimately profound, Thirty Percent Chance of Enlightenment begins when Tim Brookes receives a phone call from his editor at National Geographic asking if he’d like to write an article on weather forecasting—an assignment that doesn’t go as forecast.
He embarks on an adventure that starts in a hurricane on an icy [...]
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Tagged book, enlightenment, India, monsoon, thirty percent, travel
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