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After 30 years as a travel writer, Mark Chesnut spent his days exploring the world and writing about what he saw. Here, he shares 6 things his career as a travel writer taught him about writing his first memoir.

My last indoor dining experience of 2020 was in early March. I had crispy roast duck, watercress and assorted dumplings at Wu’s Wonton King, at the junction of Chinatown and the historic Jewish Lower East Side. Located at the foot of the Forward Building, Wu’s occupies the site of the old Garden Cafeteria, what used to be the center of New York Jewish intellectual life. Where tanks of jostling Alaskan king crabs are found today, Forward writers and Yiddish literati once kibitzed over krepla...

Into the Electric Collage by Ethan Andrews select When “Mad” Mike Hughes launched himself into the sky in a homemade rocket last year, leaving a torn parachute behind in a blast of steam propulsion, he was doing what scientists and doctors have done for millennia, testing a hypothesis against firsthand experience. As it happened, Hughes’ hypothesis, that the Earth is flat, has been under assault since antiquity. Still, Hughes, a stuntman who once made a world-record distan...