Voltage blog entries tagged with: books

 Awesome. One of the best books ever, and probably the best section of it - the game of Eschaton in Infinite Jest (by the sadly gone David Foster Wallace), now in music video form. I can't say it totally matches the feel I get from reading the chapter, but it's a pretty good shot at depicting something that probably wouldn't otherwise make it beyond the page.

So more than 5 years ago, before I was at my current job, I spent about 4-5 months doing research for an author for his next book. The book has finally been published! It's called In Motion: The Experience of Travel, and the author is Tony Hiss.

When I was doing research, the working title was 'Why We Travel', but that's not exactly what it's about. Tony's notion of 'Deep Travel', what you might say is the state of mind that one achieves through travel, is really the focus of the book. It's not the only reason why we travel - but it is the biggest and most interesting reason. I was instantly familiar with what Tony talks about, yet the concept is so varied and works at so many levels, it is easy to delve deep into bits and corners of it - and that's exactly what Tony does.

I'm about halfway through the book and love it so far. But then, Tony is a great writer. And a great guy. Congrats Tony!

My friend Berin is one of the authors/editors of a new book-thing that goes with an exhibition. Cool.