If you have been reading Walking Off the Big Apple, you know that the site has started to receive serious attention. Manhattan User's Guide in October described the site as their favorite pastime, and The New York Times added WOTBA to their City Room Blogroll. Stanley Fish quoted WOTBA in his review of the New Museum. Fancy that!I think Walking Off the Big Apple would be even ten times more fabulous if it included guest walks from around the globe. The readership has always been international and not just confined to the greater Big Apple area. Plus, I get tired of the sound of my own twangy voice.
I invite interested walkers and flâneurs (see the gift list post for the distinction) to author a guest walk for WOTBA (the silly abbreviation for Walking Off the Big Apple). Maybe you have a favorite street or neighborhood you would like to share with WOTBA's global audience. I will serve as the gentle editor for your post. Feel free to take pictures or make illustrations for your walk. You may use your own name in its entirety, if you wish, or an abbreviated one or a colorful pen name. I don't need more than 500 words. Previously published walks will not be considered. No money will exchange hands. I will sing your praises.
I operate on a whimsical schedule as it is, so I would not hold anyone to a strict deadline. I have previously sent out this call to a handful of global readers who have expressed enthusiasm for this site, but as true flâneurs, they are proudly slow.
Please write walkbigapple@yahoo.com if interested in sharing a walk from your neck of the woods with the worldwide WOTBA audience. Thank you!
Image: Inside the Daily News building. 42nd Street, New York, New York.
2 comments:
Super blog!
JJ :D
Your biggest fan from the west coast is getting closer to sharing her walk in Vancouver. Teri, as always, your blog makes me think and often laugh, at the same time.
L.
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