PAUL THEROUX: I was delighted when Fremantle and Apple first picked it up at, and wondered how they would start. They found a clever way in, by creating a backstory. The novel had no backstory, just a ...

One of America's best-known and most prolific travel writers, who has taken his readers around the world for nearly 40 years, has yet to write about the American South. That's about to change, and ...

"You'll have a terrible time," one diplomat tells Theroux upon discovering the prolific writer's plans to hitch a ride hundreds of miles along a desolate road to Nairobi instead of taking a plane.

Readers discuss a guest essay by Paul Theroux about his experiences as an American expat. Expatriation was nonetheless the making of me: liberated me, humbled me, revealed to me who I was and what I ...

American travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux joined a virtual gathering of the Northwest Passages Book Club to discuss his career and his novel, “Under the Wave at Waimea,” with The ...

With the publication of "The Great Railway Bazaar" (Houghton Mifflin, 1975), Paul Theroux established himself as a travel essayist with an unmistakable eye, ear and voice. His gift for drawing people ...

Honolulu (KHON2) – Author and Travel writer Paul Theroux is sharing his inspiration about the Hawaii surf culture novel ‘Under the Wave at Waimea.’ UNDER THE WAVE AT WAIMEA, which is a novel set in ...

Paul Theroux's new novel throws a 60-plus-year-old surfing legend, Joe Sharkey - and isn't that a great surfing name, by the way? Joe Sharkey - who's beginning to feel his legend dim, smack into the ...

Paul Theroux 'The Mosquito Coast,' Helen Mirren Harrison Ford in the 1986 film adaption. Justin Theroux and Melissa George in the TV series. David Levenson/Getty Images/Everett Collection SPOILER ...

Paul Theroux doesn't feel old. Sure, he recently turned 60 and sure, he told WW, "I get a break when I go to the movies...[but] when we finish talking here I'm going snorkeling." The subject is not ...