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Podcast: Travel Writing Podcast
Episode: Charly Wilder: From the New York Times Travel Section to Executive Editor at Roads & Kingdoms
Description: As a 20-something travel scrabbling together an existence in the youth hostels of Istanbul and Berlin, Charly Wilder began writing. A cold email led to a blogging role at the New York Times, which soon developed into dozens of features, including contributions to their highly successful '36 Hours In' series.
Charly's stories resist the cliches of travel writing and challenge assumptions - about whether a truly transformative travel experience can be engineered, about travel in the footsteps of your ancestors, or literary heroes.
Two years ago, Charly took a job as Executive Editor at Roads & Kingdoms. The platform had ceased...