Today I sit down with author Thomas Kohnstamm to talk about his wild ride from grocery store deli worker to grad student, Lonely Planet travel writer, and now celebrated novelist. In the early 2000s, Thomas made global headlines after an Australian tabloid twisted an interview claiming that he'd written about places he'd never visited. While what heβd said about the truth of travel writing was more nuanced, it effectively ended his travel-writing career. But he turned that setback into a second act β spending the next decade reinventing himself as a fiction writer. With acclaimed novels like Lake City and his latest, Supersonic, Thomas has built a new literary identity rooted in humor, grit, and determination. Itβs a fascinating conversation with an all-around great guy.linktr.ee: https://linktr.ee/freshfacepods.evison
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