Thomas Swick
Thomas Swick is the author, most recently, of The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illuminate Them.
14/02/2024
Florida friends: Tomorrow at 2 pm I'll be talking about love - and Poland, and travel writing - at the Selby Library in downtown Sarasota.
Poland and the Making of a Travel Writer: Author Talk with Thomas Swick | Sarasota County Libraries Library Calendar system for Sarasota County Libraries.
09/02/2024
I'm featured in the February issue of City & Shore magazine.
Travel writer and editor Thomas Swick answers all of our questions Thomas Swick is a travel writer and author graced with a cosmopolitan elan to match his far-flung itineraries. A career-long man of the world, Swick has now become quite unabashedly a Florida man. …
05/01/2024
"Florida Man" is now available on The American Scholar website: https://theamericanscholar.org/florida-man/
It is a personal essay that turns into a defense of the state (for the most part) against the people outside it who continue to make fun of it and the writers inside it who insist on sensationalizing it.
Florida Man - The American Scholar Making a home in the Sunshine State when you feel like a perpetual outsider
08/12/2023
This essay mentions, among others, Susan Puckett, Barbary Hamby, Campbell McGrath, Karen Russell, Lauren Groff, Ana Menéndez, Susan Orlean, Paul Theroux, Jerry Seinfeld, Iggy Pop, Coco Gauff, Billy Collins, Martin Amis, the Sun-Sentinel, the Miami Herald, and (though unnamed) Diana Abu-Jaber, Matt Schudel, and Books & Books.
(The fully essay is not yet available online, but the magazine can be found at Books & Books in the Gables and at most Barnes & Noble stores.)
Florida Man - The American Scholar Making a home in the Sunshine State when you feel like a perpetual outsider
28/03/2023
Jannnik Sinner (practice courts, Miami Open).