Portland-based writer Chuck Thompson is signing/reading from his new book "Smile When You're Lying". The book is a hilarious memoir of some of Chuck's most memorable travel adventures. His selected stories are deliberately not the sort of bite-sized travel McNuggets you find in G-rated pages of commercial travel industry rags. In other words, they are incredible and funny anecdotes propelled by fresh one liners and a bristling wit. As a travel writer who has visited over 35 countries and former editor of travel magazine Travelocity, Chuck knows the dynamics of the travel writing industry first hand and explains why travel magazines/guide  s are so boring and predictable. Instead of over-glamorized fictional accounts of travel romance, from Lonely Planet to books like Kerouac's "On The Road", check out a book that lives up to the "the truth is stranger than fiction" saying. Check out one of Portland's hottest writers in person. Here is Conversation with Chuck Thompson, Portland writer of "Smile When You're Lying" Part 1 on Public Press .

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