Marfa Mondays Podcasting Project: Exploring Marfa,Texas and Environs of Far West Texas: September 2016

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Literary Travel Writing: Notes on Process and the Digital Revolution

[[ Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site in Far West Texas.

Confession: After I snapped this photo with my iPhone I checked my email
-- just to see if I could! Alas, I could.]]

The aim of literary travel writing was-- and remains-- to bring the reader to deeply notice, that is, get out of her head and into the world of specific sounds, smells, tastes, textures, colors, ideas, histories, geographies, geologies... In the words of Kenneth Smith, "You have to open space, and deepen place." >> CONTINUE READING AT MY MAIN BLOG, "MADAM MAYO"

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C.M. Mayo is an award-winning literary journalist and novelist currently at work on a book about Far West Texas (hence these podcasts). A native of El Paso, in 2017 she was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters. Her most recent works include Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution, which was awarded the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award for History, and The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire, a novel based on the true story and named a Library Journal Best Book for 2009. Mayo is also the author of Miraculous Air: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico, two chapters of which, as essays, won Lowell Thomas Awards, and she is editor of Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, a collection of 24 works of Mexican fiction and literary prose, many in translation for the first time. Her first book, Sky Over El Nido, won the Flannery Connor Award for Short Fiction. ***Visit her website at www.cmmayo.com***

VISIT MY OTHER BLOGS (NO, ACTUALLY, I DO NOT BLOG ALL DAY THOUGH THAT SURE WOULD BE FUN)

Madam Mayo

Ye olde main blog, which offers updates on my publications, podcasts, workshops & more and whatever catches my fancy (and that ranges from literary translation to Mexican history to squirrel haberdashery). I began it back in the Pleistocene, that is, 2006 when the poet E. Ethelbert Miller sent me an email addressed to "Madam Mayo," which struck me as hilarious.

Maximilian ~ Carlota

A once-in-a-while-on-Tuesdays blog to share my (copius) research and other information related to my novel set during the 1860s in Mexico-- that tumultuous period known as the Second Empire or French Intervention.

Reading Tolstoy's War and Peace

Finally, after numerous attempts, I tackled the behemoth in 2011. This blog, now closed but ever open for perusal, I kept for myself, for fellow W&P travelers past, present and future, and for my writing workshop students so they can see precisely what I mean by "reading as a writer."

Giant Golden Buddha & 364 More 5 Minute Writing Exercises

A long-ago blog by Yours Truly and friends, now an ebook. Help yourself.

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Sunday, September 18, 2016

Literary Travel Writing: Notes on Process and the Digital Revolution