Rolf's new book!
Vagabonding
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Marco Polo Didn't Go There
Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel WriterTravelers' Tales
This book collects Rolf's boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys from his first 10 years as a travel writer -- from crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram. Each chapter contains a "commentary track" -- humorous endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers.
Due out in September of 2008!
 Vagabonding
An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World TravelVillard/Random House
"Vagabonding" is about taking time off from your normal life — from six weeks, to four months, to two years — to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Rolf shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Outside magazine founding editor Tim Cahill calls Vagabonding "the most sensible book of travel related advice ever written." Book excerpt and full information available at Vagabonding.net.
Anthologies
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The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 2 W.W. Norton
Editor: Lee Gutkind
Rolf's Story: "The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra"
Notable contributors: Heidi Julavits, Stefan Fatsis, Pagan Kennedy, Donovan Hohn, and William deBuys.
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The Best Travel Writing 2008 Travelers' Tales
Editors: James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly
Rolf's Story: "Death of an Adventure Traveler"
Notable contributors: Sara Wheeler, Catherine Watson, Tony Perrottet, and Richard Goodman.
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Encounters
with the Middle East Solas House
Editors: Nesreen Khashan and Jim Bowman
Rolf's Story: "Dancing at the Blood Festival"
Notable contributors: Jeff Greenwald, Murad Kalam, Mal Karman, Laurence
Mitchell, and Michel Moushabeck.
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The Best American Travel Writing 2006 Houghton Mifflin
Editors: Tim Cahill and Jason Wilson
Rolf's Story: "Tantric Sex for Dilettantes"
Notable contributors: Alain de Botton, Pico Iyer, David Sedaris, Gary Shteyngart, and George Saunders.
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Tales From Nowhere Lonely Planet
Editor: Don George
Rolf's Story: "The Living Museum of Nowhere and Everywhere"
Notable contributors: Simon Winchester, Pico Iyer, Tim Cahill, Stanley Stewart, and Anthony Sattin.
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The Best Travel Writing 2006 Travelers' Tales
Editors: James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly
Rolf's Story: "Road Roulette"
Notable contributors: Alain de Botton, Herbert Gold, Bob Guccione Jr., Tony Perrottet, Jeff Greenwald and Patrick Symmes.
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 | What Color is Your Jockstrap? Travelers' Tales
Editor: Jennifer L. Leo
Rolf's Story: "Signs of Confusion"
Notable contributors: Tim Cahill, Susan Orlean, Elliott Hester, and Laurie Notaro. |
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The World is a Kitchen Travelers' Tales
Editors: Susan Brady and Michele Anna Jordan
Rolf's Contribution: "Mandu Rolf-Bap"
Notable contributors: Catherine Watson, Richard Sterling, Lydia Polgreen, Jay Cooke, Cindy Wallach, and Mary Taylor Simetti.
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By the Seat of My Pants Lonely Planet
Editor: Don George
Rolf's Story: "Something Approaching Enlightenment"
Notable contributors: Simon Winchester, Jan Morris, Pico Iyer, Tim Cahill, Doug Lansky, and Jeff Greenwald.
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The Best Travel Writing 2005 Travelers' Tales
Editors: James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly
Rolf's Story: "Circuit Broken"
Notable contributors: Susan Orlean, Pico Iyer, Mark Jenkins, Bruno Maddox and Murad Kalam.
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 | Travel Writing Lonely Planet
Author/Editor: Don George
Rolf's Contribution: "Travel Writing Tips"
Notable contributors: Tim Cahill, Daisann McLane, Pico Iyer, Sara Wheeler, Rory MacLean and Stanley Stewart.
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The Best Travelers' Tales 2004 Travelers' Tales
Editors: James O'Reilly, Larry Habegger, Sean O'Reilly
Rolf's Story: "Anthem Soul"
Notable contributors: Simon Winchester, Brad Newsham, Jeff Greenwald and Alison Wright.
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The Kindness of
Strangers Lonely Planet
Editors: Don George, His Holiness the Dalai Lama (preface)
Rolf's Story: "My Beirut Hostage Crisis"
Notable contributors: Tim Cahill, Jan Morris, Simon Winchester,
and Dave Eggers
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Hyenas
Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why: The Best of Travel Humor and
Misadventure Travelers' Tales
Editors: Sean O' Reilly, Larry Habegger, James O'Reilly, Tim Cahill
(introduction)
Rolf's Story: "Cowboys and Indians, Thai Style"
Notable contributors: Elliott Hester, Doug Lansky, Richard Sterling, William Dalrymple, and Jennifer L. Leo.
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A House Somewhere: Tales of Life Abroad Lonely Planet
Editor: Don George and Anthony Sattin
Rolf's Story: "Digging Mr. Benny's Dead Uncle"
Notable contributors: Peter Mayle, Isabel Allende, Frances Mayes, Pico Iyer and Paul Theroux.
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Travelers' Tales: Turkey Travelers' Tales
Editor: James Villers, Jr.
Rolf's Story: "Turkish Knockout"
Notable contributors: Tim Cahill, Nick Danziger, Robert D. Kaplan, John
Krich, and Tony Perrottet
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Salon.com's Wanderlust: Real-Life Tales of Adventure and Romance Villard/Random House
Editor: Don George
Rolf's Story: "Storming 'The Beach'"
Notable contributors: Pico Iyer, Isabel Allende, Simon Winchester and Jan Morris
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Best American Travel Writing 2000 Houghton Mifflin
Editors: Bill Bryson and Jason Wilson
Rolf's story: "Storming 'The Beach'"
Notable contributors: P.J. O'Rourke, William T. Vollmann, Tim Cahill, Bill Buford, David Halberstam and Dave Eggers |
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Adrenaline 2000: The Year's Best Stories of Adventure and Survival Thunder's Mouth Press
Editor: Clint Willis
Rolf's story: "Be Your Own Donkey"
Notable contributors: Reinhold Messner, Mark Jenkins, Conrad Anker, Alex Lowe and Philip Caputo
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Not So Funny When it Happened: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure Travelers' Tales
Editor: Tim Cahill
Rolf's story: "Penny Pinched"
Notable contributors: Dave Barry, Anne Lamott, David Sedaris, Bill Bryson and Douglas Adams
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Travelers' Tales: Greece Travelers' Tales
Editors: Jason Alexander, Larry Habbegger, Sean O'Reilly
Rolf's Story: "Slumming the Pink Palace"
Notable contributors: Lawrence Durrell, Paul Theroux and Henry Miller
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The Rolf Potts obscure
collection
Some of the fiction and satire stories Rolf wrote while he was in college
later wound up in small-press anthologies, including The Best of Pif
Magazine: Off-Line,In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining
Itself, and On the Eighth Day God Laughed. More information
about these titles, and Rolf's contributions to them, can be found here.
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