Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés, the Lecture
Award-winning travel writer and editor Gary Lee Kraut lecture on the subject of “Travel and Travel Writing Beyond the Clichés: In Search of the Perfect Travel Moment in France” at the Mid-Manhattan Public Library on Feb. 8, 2013.
The October Issue
October 2014 -- The current issue of France Revisited contains a snippet of romantic news from Paris and some advice about visiting Monet’s gardens at Giverny, and I’m especially pleased to present you with a 3-part series about what is for English-speaking travelers one of the least known areas of France: French Ardennes.
Paris Writers News Interviews Gary Lee Kraut
April 2011 – I’m normally the one asking the questions, but for an interview now appearing on the literary blog Paris Writers Notes, editor...
The Cranky Editor: Life Beyond the Facebook Quarter of Paris
Preparing France Revisited’s Cranky Issue has made me one happy editor.
My call for cantankerous texts from residents and travelers willing to demonstrate that all...
Bloomberg News: Strikes in Paris leave tourists well-fed anyway
A Bloomberg news headline of October 2010, taken up by many online publications, states “Strikes at Eiffel Tower, Orsay Museum Leave Tourists Stranded.”
On the Radio with Peter Greenberg, The Travel Detective
On the occasion of the opening of the new Peninsula Hotel in Paris this summer, American radio and television personality Peter Greenberg, aka The Travel Detective, invited me to be one of his radio guests in order to talk about the best approach to visiting Paris. The show aired on Nov. 1, 2014 and can be heard in podcast.
You know you live in Paris when… You don’t
You don't live in Paris anymore. You now live at the center of a nameless territory with a radius of one kilometer, legally circumscribed by coronavirus confinement. If you were to give that territory a name, it would be your own.
A Bend in the Road with Maura Sweeney
Maura Sweeney wants us all to be happy. Writer, inspirational speaker, radio personality, wife, mother, friend, stranger with a tolerant gaze and a kind word, Maura is a native of New Jersey, a longtime Floridian and an inveterate traveler who wants us all to carry a passport from the State of Happiness. She speaks here with Gary Lee Kraut about his concept of travel therapy.
Arbor Day and the Award-winning Travel Writer
On becoming a double award-winning travel writer on the occasion of Arbor Day, despite the demise of the silky dogwood.