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Thomas Swick

Thomas Swick
Thomas Swick’s most recent book is the memoir Falling into Place: A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer.


Failing Better: On The Tennis Player and The Writer

Thomas Swick Examines the Parallels Between Two Joyous (and Thankless) Vocations
September 5, 2025  By Thomas Swick
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What the End of The Best American Travel Writing Says About Travel Writing—And About America

Thomas Swick on the Uncertain Future of a Durable Genre
November 8, 2021  By Thomas Swick
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Towards the Heart of a Book: In Praise of the Epigraph

Thomas Swick on the Importance of the “Ceremonial Gate”
June 23, 2021  By Thomas Swick
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Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa’s Disquiet

Thomas Swick on the Unlikely Success of a Summer Writing Program
June 24, 2020  By Thomas Swick
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Standing Room Only: On Overtravel and the Joy of the Unsung

Where Do We Go Now?
August 23, 2019  By Thomas Swick
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The Cold War Love Story of a Would-Be Travel Writer/Almost-Spy

Thomas Swick's Tough Choices in 1978 Warsaw
June 4, 2019  By Thomas Swick
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There Is Still Wonder to Be Had in Travel

Tom Swick on Discovery in the Age of Google Earth
February 27, 2017  By Thomas Swick
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