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On the High Seas with Travel Writer Chaney Kwak

On the podcast: Chaney Kwak ’09 recounts his near-death experience aboard a cruise ship.

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Book cover for The Passenger by Chaney Kwak
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Episode notes

In his debut, The Passenger: How a Travel Writer Learned to Love Cruises & Other Lies from a Sinking Ship (Godine(link is external), June 2021),  longtime travel writer Chaney Kwak recounts his harrowing experiences on board the Viking Sky cruise ship that, in 2019, nearly capsized. The Passenger is available from bookstore.org(link is external) and your local bookseller.

About Chaney

Headshot of Chaney Kwak by Micahel Baca
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Chaney Kwak was living in Berlin, Germany, and freelancing for publications such as The New York Times when he began his MFA studies in fiction at Lesley University. He has contributed to Condé Nast Traveler, Afar, Travel & Leisure, and a number of National Geographic anthologies. His fiction has appeared in Zyzzyva, Catamaran Literary Review, Gertrude, and other literary journals, earning a special mention from the Pushcart Prize. A winner of the Key West Literary Seminar Emerging Writer Awards, he has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and other literary workshops. 

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