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the photography and journalism blog of Ariel Swartley
SIGHTED_The Records
February 06, 2014
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Because things aren't always as they're seen.
What really happens on the highways? What gets reported in the archives?
SIGHTED_The Records: A sketchy story in words and photographs.
Some of the truth is in here. STAY TUNED FOR BOOK PUBLICATION DETAILS!
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WANDERER: The First Book
December 20, 2013
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Lovers of skewed perspectives, vintage kitchenware, Hello Kitty, battered china.
quest stories, New England woodwork, lemonade, and northern light
may be pleased to know that my alter ego, Wanderer, now has her own book,
both e- and text, which may be previewed and/or acquired at
http://blur.by/1basD5t or (e-book only) at i-tunes
WANDERER UPDA...
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This Reading Life: My Home-Bound Summer Abroad, Part 2
October 03, 2013
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This is part 2 of a long-form article about a summer reading adventure inspired by Paul Theroux’s Ghost Train to the Eastern Shore. Part 1--with books by Michael Ondaatje, Shirley Hazzard, Orhan Pamuk, and more--with was posted on 9/25/13
Reading Ghost Train to the Eastern Shore, I was rattling across the increasingly odd -stan states and lookin...
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This Reading Life: My Home-Bound Summer Abroad, Part 1
September 25, 2013
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In late April, about to fly east to bury my father, I bought a book for the trip: Paul Theroux’s Ghost Train to the Eastern Star. My mother had tried to interest me in Theroux’s first train book in the 1980s, but I was discovering earlier travel writers—Lafcadio Hearn, Pierre Loti, Freya Stark—and had dismissed her recommendation. Now he and I were...
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Regarding Waves
August 08, 2013
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Watching waves does not mean I understand them. Here is what I think I know.
There is an impulse
--energy, a genie, an epiphany. Wind or a boat--
and a body that receives it.
In this case, water.
The form that results is articulated by the conditions it encounters: rocky point, plunging shore.
For the watcher, a vocabulary of line, shap...
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