You are a human animal. You are a very special breed, for you are the only animal, who can think, who can reason, who can read.

Hi, this is Mike Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, we have with us two writers.

We have Tim Cahill, author of A Wolverine,

is Eating My Leg, an original from Vintage in their departure series.

And we have Mitch Siskind, a writer living in California, who is a humorist,

whose lost book visitations we will be excavating and resurrecting.

I'm going to start with Tim Cahill.

Tim, you've been doing what is called travel adventure writing.

What is that? It's a kind adventure writing. What is that?

It's a kind of writing in which one looks at the landscape, the exterior landscape,

and sees how it corresponds or doesn't correspond to the interior landscape.

There seems to be a boom in adventure

travel writing these days. The vintage departure books are completely about adventure travel

writing or travel writing. I was recently in London and somebody asked me if I

wasn't jumping on the bandwagon of something that's very popular now.

But you've been doing it for years.

Yeah, that's what I told him. I've been doing this for 16 years. They're jumping

on my bandwagon. Tell me, you have a previous book, and you've been called or accused of being a

Gonzo journalist. Where does Gonzo enter travel writing?

Gonzo was originally a term that Hunter Thompson used to describe the kind of writing that he did.

And that term comes from a man named William Cardozo, who was a writer, California writer,

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