Rolf Potts

INTERESTS:

Rolf Potts has reported from more than sixty countries for the likes of National Geographic Traveler, The New Yorker, Slate.com, Outside, the New York Times Magazine, The Believer, National Public Radio, and the Travel Channel. His essays have appeared in over twenty literary anthologies, and nineteen of his stories have been selected as “Notable Mention” in The Best American Travel Writing and The Best American Non-Required Reading, including “Storming ‘The Beach,’” which Bill Bryson chose as a main selection in 2000, and “Tantric Sex for Dilettantes,” which Tim Cahill selected in 2006. He is the author of two books, Vagabonding (Random House, 2003) and Marco Polo Didn’t Go There (Travelers’ Tales, 2008).

SELECTED ARTICLES:

–”Tourist Snapshots,” Design Observer, May 29, 2012 

–”Where No Travel Writer Has Gone Before,” World Hum, November 16, 2009 

–”The Henry Ford of Literature,” The Believer, September 2008 

–”The Tourist Who Influenced the Terrorists,” The Believer, October 2006

–”The Art of Writing a Story About Walking Across Andorra,” World Hum, December 30, 2005 

–”Storming ‘The Beach’,” Salon, January 30, 1999 

COURSES: Reading and Writing the Modern Essay