Friends and neighbors of The Urban Sherpa

(a geographic and spiritual guide to life in the big city...)

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Friends & Neighbors

An ever-evolving list of Sherpa-recommended excursions. Some are actual friends; others are ideological neighbors.

Thoughtful wise prosaic acrobatics by Colleen Wainwright.

A quarterly anthology of five top-notch short stories, delivered in every viable medium.

Jon Arbuckle as you've never seen him before.

Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, and if all else fails, pray.

Regular columns by Virginia Heffernen, critic of TV et al for the New York Times.

noticing, thinking, ideas. mostly unpolished, circuitous, sincere

Miette searches the globe and reads you the world's best short stories.

A blog by, for, and about writers.

Alain de Botton and friends.

A quarterly which publishes fiction, poetry and essays by new and established writers