WHAT IS A WALKABOUT JONES?
It’s the feeling you get in the middle of the night when your mouth is dry and you just can’t sleep, and you find yourself wearily searching for that fastly fleeting afterglow of all your bright, youthful ambitions. For life as that big and colorful fresco you once imagined it would be.
Outside, you hear a single engine bearing down a distant road. It has a sonorous percussion: The steady thump and pump of cylinders, the warbling trill and run of gears. Your heart picks up as it moves closer. You wonder who’s behind the wheel? Where have they been? And where are they going? You could have the whole world in your pocket, every dividend worth keeping. But as that gray ghost throttles closer, you’d give it all away like that for a mile in their rumble seat.
Walkabout Jones, Escape.
What We Are:
Walkabout Jones stands as a refuge from pundits and paparazzi, offering readers a polished assortment of essays, new journalism, art, music, film and social action.
A destination for wordly, creative, adventurous thinkers, we envision a community where you can read compelling first person narratives, talk about current events and culture, while enjoying art and music from around the world. Smart with an attitude, at our core is a muckraker’s passion for justice and a carpetbagger’s zest for the open road. In the historic tradition of participatory journalism (including everything from Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris and London to Plimpton’s Paper Lion to Almond’s Candyfreak), we take our readers places they would never ordinarily travel.
Whether it’s six months in South America, or one year with medical marijuana in California, each series is written in first person voice to bring readers as close to the experience as they can go.
Supported by a timely mix of magazine-style departments, Walkabout Jones aims to create a digital coffee house of sorts—where you can enjoy everything from skewering political essays to laugh-out-loud shorts, art, photography, music, and short films and documentaries that entertain and inspire.
“Walkabout Jones is about journeys—whether they’re trips to distant lands or vibrant explorations inside social issues. We see a panoply of publications featuring little more than paparazzi, and while we understand there’s a market there, we also believe there are millions of smart, adventurous, socially-attuned readers looking for something more. At its core, Walkabout Jones believes that people want to be engaged, and our job is to capture their imagination.”
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