When Jack Hitt set out to walk the 500 miles from France to Santiago de Compostela, Spain, he submitted to the rigorous traditions of Europe's oldest form of packaged tour, a pilgrimage that has been walked by millions in the history of Christendom. Off the Road is an unforgettable exploration o...
This extremely gimmicky book has Hitt query five famous crime authors on how to commit the perfect murder, with the conceit being that this isn't just an intellectual exercise -- Hitt supposedly aims to carry out the murder for real. The correspondence between Hitt and the authors, all of whom a...
It is, quite simply, out of the question. You aspire not merely to murder but to Art, and in any work of art the choice of background is of critical importance. The background, in addition to having some intrinsic charm or interest of its own, should subtly echo those qual...
The Biggest Story in the World ne morning I got a call from a friend inside the Nature Conservancy who asked me, first off, if I could keep an incredibly huge secret. We all know the answer to that question. Breathlessly, he told me that his organization was sitting on one of the most amazing sto...