I'll be reading an excerpt from my as-yet-unpublished travel memoir as part of the Litquake festival in October. The other two travel writers are accomplished guys, so it should make for an interesting afternoon in Sausalito: www.litquake.org/calendar-of-events/event/words-on-the-waves
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Nov.09.2011 - 3:53 pm
Last night was the first election night in about seven years that I didn't spend hunkered in a newsroom into the wee hours, munching pizza and debating when it was safe enough to...
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Jun.04.2011 - 11:13 pm
Do you remember when you first fell in love? Or the day you first glimpsed something you knew would change your life forever?
That happened to me two decades ago today. June 5,...
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Apr.07.2011 - 11:50 am
Got an email yesterday from a friend in Bay Area Travel Writers congratulating me on winning a Solas Award. My response: "Thanks, but I didn't know I'd won!" (Ironically...
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Aug.16.2010 - 5:35 pm
Some of us, if we’re lucky, find a moment where what we’re meant to do in the world clicks into focus. For me, it was the spring of 1992, when I was laid up for six weeks in...
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Published Reviews
Jan.01.2010
Published by Rolf Potts' Vagabonding.com
There's no greater thrill than grabbing your pack and passport and getting on a plane -- wherever it's going. Being able to share all those experiences with readers helps me keep...
About Peter
Peter Delevett is a columnist, former editor and occasional travel writer at the San Jose Mercury News. His work has appeared in the Honolulu Advertiser, Miami Herald, (New Orleans) Times-Picayune, Sunset magazine and at WorldHum.com, winning prizes from the...
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Board member, Books and Authors Vietnam, a national nonprofit that fosters literary exchange between the US and Vietnam and seeks to publish writing by...