david farley likes eating, drinking, traveling and then writing about it. His work appears in the travel sections of The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, and The South Florida Sun Sentinel, as well as the magazines Conde Nast Traveler, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Playboy, GQ, New York magazine, Time Out New York,and National Geographic Traveler among other publications. He's talked about his travels on the Fine Living network, as well as on radio stations all over North America.
His travel essays have also appeared in the books, The Best Travelers' Tales 2004 and 30 Days in Italy. In 2005, farley's story, "Natural Born Pig Killers," won a Lowell Thomas Award, which recognizes excellence in travel writing; a year later, his story, "Of Kings and Cows" was named one of the notable travel stories in The Best American Travel Writing 2006.
He's the editor of Travelers' Tales Prague, an anthology of literary nonfiction about the Czech capital and its environs and he's worked as the Nightlife Editor at BlackBook magazine and the New York City Restaurant Editor for Gayot.com. Farley teaches writing at Gotham Writers' Workshop and New York University.
In the Spring 2009 (which feels like a galaxy far, far away), Gotham Books/Penguin will publish farley's travelogue/narrative history about his bizarre, intriguing, and often humorous search for one of Christianity's most curious relics: the foreskin of Jesus.
After stints in San Francisco, Rome, Paris, and Prague, farley now lives with his wife and their dog Abraham Lincoln. He's the founder of the Restless Legs Reading Series. And he's also an awesome dancer.
