She wore enormous glasses and purple slacks. Traveler's World was a trade magazine. Most people don't read them you know. They turn the pages, they linger over the pictures and advertisements, but they don't read them. I was in the business fifty years.
Most magazines are for selling ad space and that's about it.
I told her that I had never encountered such eccentric writing in a travel magazine. For example, take the work of Jason Dern. Between 1952 and 1956, Dern traveled across Latin America, from Mexico to Chile, and filed twenty articles along the way. Where mold had warped the plaster, where the weight of the centuries-old building had collapsed the corner of my room, the wall looked exactly like a navel. And it stared at me.