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Lynne Sharon Schwartz's first novel Rough Strife was nominated for a National Book Award in 1980. Other works include Balancing Acts, Disturbances in the Field, Acquainted With the Night, The Melting Pot and Other Subversive Stories, Leaving Brooklyn (nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction), The Fatigue Artist, Ruined by Reading In the Family Way: An Urban Comedy, Face to Face, In Solitary, Referred Pain, The Writing on the Wall (2005), and The Emergence of Memory: Conversations With W.G. Sebald. Her newest book, Not Now, Voyager, will be published by Counterpoint Press in April.
The thought of traveling always fills me with dread. I approach any major trip, no matter how delightful it promises to be, wondering, How will I cope? What will become of me? There are many ways to deal with travel anxiety — the best of which, in my view, is to stay home. Until last [...]