David Bentley Hart on Travelogues: The Case of Steinbeck

Evidence against DBH's travel book theory.

A picture I took right here in NYC. I’ll give a free 1-year paid subscription to anyone in the comments who can guess where I stood when I took this shot.

Recently, David Bentley Hart — whom I respect, read often, and with whose mind I dare not dally — wrote a wonderful piece on Evelyn Waugh’s travel writing. However the piece had an assumption at the start that drove me …