In 1967, while covering the proposed plan for a cross-Manhattan expressway that would have cut straight through the lower portion...
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Sarah is the founder and editor of Flung and the author of The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach. She also wrote Process: The Writing Lives of Great Authors, and is a widely published travel and culture writer. Follow her on Twitter or Instagram.
What a delight to discover that we once again live in a world in which new hotels open. In this...
Flung is back! If you are reading this, you may have already noticed the completely redesigned website. Among the design...
After spending years as that amazing abandoned building I strained to see from Terminal 5 every time I flew jetBlue...
I picked up William Finnegan’s surfing memoir, Barbarian Days, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 2016, not with...
In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better...
There are very few tourists to San Francisco for whom Vesuvio Cafe does not show up on the radar. Opened...
During the several years that I researched The Last Resort: A Chronicle of Paradise, Profit, and Peril at the Beach,...
Way back when I was too young to legally get into one, I went to my first bar. It bestowed...
I often tell people that I became a writer at least in part because of the untethered lifestyle it offered....
I’m sitting in the leather armchair in the corner of our room at the Arrive Hotel in Palm Springs, clinging...
I stayed in Singapore’s new InterContinental Hotel Robertson Quay just a few weeks after it opened last fall. Already, it...
If you’re the sort who generally fails to book restaurants ahead of time, like I am, getting a table at...
On a recent afternoon in New Orleans’ Garden District, I hopped off the St. Charles streetcar on what seemed a...
On my first night staying at the new Ace Hotel in Downtown Brooklyn, I returned around midnight and, having realized...
To read travel magazines or watch Anthony Bourdain’s shows or browse Instagram today is to come away always with the...
In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better...
When I was growing up there in the eighties and nineties, Lexington, Kentucky couldn’t have been called a destination. When...
In unfamiliar cities, I tend to be a walker. I love the particular relationship it carves out between me, who...
I rolled up to my two-night stay at the Ace Hotel in New Orleans at 1 a.m. on an early...