Talking about thinking about writing about walking
Updates from Sapporo, including observations of red-crowned cranes in Hokkaido, an invitation to my May 4th open studio talk, a call for Hungarian readers to review my upcoming translation of ”The Wilds of Shikoku” and Alan Booth’s “Roads Out of Time”, and reflections on writing about my walk around Japan.
A journey to Sapporo and other ways of having fun
There’s a good chance you haven’t heard from me since October 2023. Peter here, the guy who was then walking around Japan. The last letter you read on this...
💜 Strange peaks, black cliffs and volcanic cones
A good day to you all from aboard the “Blue Luminous”, floating somewhere on the black waters of the Straits of Tsugaru (home to bluefin tuna, American...
💜 The urge to drop everything
“Around Japan?” Ms. Chioko asked, in English, after we had both finished our ice creams and coffees. She had spotted me from the window, a woman from Tokyo...
💜 Introducing: Walk Forever Club, and my longest walk ever
I’m going on a walk. On September 15, I will leave Wakkanai, Hokkaido, for the third and final stage of my walk around all of Japan, a journey I started in...
💜 Talking the walk
A quick reminder that this coming Monday, on July 17 at 7 PM JST, I will be speaking about my past — and future! — long walks in Japan for Informasia, a...
💜 Is this thing still on?
My apologies for the extended radio silence. If you were wondering whether this mailing list is still active, it is. But I haven’t sent anything since...
🌋 And you’ll climb a mountain and stand all alone at the top
The third post from “Human Again”, my series of dispatches from a walk in northern Japan, is now online at: <br /> Human Again: Dispatch #3 - I 💜 Wasting Ink...
🚶🏽🗾 A fascination with places that look remote
The second post from “Human Again”, my series of dispatches from a walk in northern Japan, is now online at: <br /> Human Again: Dispatch 2 - I 💜 Wasting Ink...
🚶🏽🗾 Death will be like the end of the summer holidays
Hello from the southern shore of the Sea of Okhotsk, a few days’ walk from the La Pérouse Strait, which separates Hokkaido from Sakhalin and will mark the...
🚶🏽 Walking in Japan again
I dreamed of walking back, under wedges of red-crowned cranes returning from the north, along the rice harvests of Tōhoku under azure autumnal skies […] On...
🏔 Mountains beyond mountains
“Walk forever?” a shopkeeper named Mr. Takamori asked me on the evening of July 18, 2017, in the village of Jōbōji, in north-east Japan. I wasn’t, not then,...
💜 A walk, another walk, and my inchoate new book
On an afternoon in August 2017, a few days after I had walked from one end of Japan to the other, I met Timothy Harris, an Englishman of many trades — actor,...
💙💛 Books for Ukraine
In my last letter I mentioned that I would write in March about the next parts of “These Walking Dreams”, my visual field diary about a long walk in Japan....
💜 About a long walk in Japan
If you’re reading this letter, you likely had something to do with that book I wrote three years ago, the one about a short walk in Japan called “The Wilds...