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Travel Movies We Love: Eat Pray Love Shop

August 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Travel Movies We Love

To come clean, we are opinionated about the travel movies we love. For that matter, we’re opinionated about exotic-locale movies we hate, based just on the preview. But after we posted our snarky “SATC2″ piece, we noticed that the collective girl-movie-bashing may be getting a squinch overheated (we’re looking at you, Lindy West).

Other people have made this point, of course, including the always-brilliant Emily Nussbam and the Guardian. We knew, going in, that “Eat Pray Love” was doing to fit all the stereotypes of a chick flick, and as Jezebel and EW so aptly summarized, “if women like it, it must be stupid.”

So–what did we actually think of the movie, the book, the whole Elizabeth-Gilbert-theme park that is “Eat Pray Love”?

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What Is the Point of Travel?

February 14th, 2010 · No Comments · Blog posts by Lia, Novelty, The point of travel

As a former writer for a Guidebook Company That Shall Not Be Named, I’m partial to thoughtful essays about why we travel. Guidebook work is about facts and trends, neither of which lend themselves to any reflection whatsoever.

Yesterday I picked up the amazing new McSweeney’s, made in newspaper form. Coincidentally, I had already bookmarked this blog post from Jonah Lehrer on the cognitive inner workings behind why we travel, which is part of McSweeney’s No. 33.

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