As is my wont, I only took an interest in Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey, Reid Mitenbuler’s...
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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.
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There’s something weird going on with Paris hotels, I gradually concluded as I conducted the research for a place to...
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Twenty years ago, the Bourbon Trail didn’t exist. Before 1999, when the Kentucky Distillers’ Association created the concept, tourism to...
In June, for the first time since shortly after my graduation in the spring of 1999, I returned to the...
A couple millennia ago in the ancient Aztec culture based in what is present-day Mexico, there was no beer or...
In Flight Reviews, Flung writers provide key information about flights they take in order to leave the flying public better...
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Perhaps no other American author has had his writing style more widely examined, more often imitated, and more intensively deconstructed...