The essays in Bad Tourist are less about describing the superficial details of someone’s travels than they are about a more intimate set of adventures.
What Vanasco does in her book is way more compelling than filling in what she doesn’t know: she experiments with form by shattering the story into shards…
Cappello’s almanack…positions itself as a way station of mood: a resting place where writer and reader both might try to make sense of moods, even though life might break the mood at any time.