By Teresa Bergen I was halfway through the tour before I realized I’d read the wrong Little House book to [...]
Lauramania: A Tour of De Smet, South Dakota
Posted on April 22, 2013 2 Comments
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Betty Smith Knew Brooklyn
Posted on January 14, 2013 5 Comments
By Amy Hamblen Growing up in the Midwest, my childhood was a whirl of swimming in strip pits, hunting for [...]
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Movie Review: On the Road
Posted on January 9, 2013 Leave a Comment
By Wes Newbury A brief reflection on literature, and an even briefer one on the movie, On the Road. Jack Kerouac’s On [...]
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Review of Cosmopolis: The Movie
Posted on January 8, 2013 Leave a Comment
By Antoinette Weil When I chose to watch Cosmopolis as part of our Literary “Fauxscars” segment, I went in with [...]
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The Long Last Ride of John Kennedy Toole
Posted on December 17, 2012 Leave a Comment
By William Caverlee Biloxi, Mississippi, is only eighty-seven miles from New Orleans, a brief drive up US 90, along the [...]
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Interview with B.A. Shapiro, Author of The Art Forger
Posted on December 6, 2012 1 Comment
Questions and introduction by Carly Cassano; Interview executed by Francis McGovern The Literary Traveler Boston team recently had the opportunity [...]
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Robinson Jeffers: The Poet and Stone Mason of Tor House
Posted on November 26, 2012 Leave a Comment
By Victor A. Walsh Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers [...]
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The Hotel Montelone: New Orleans Literary Landmark
Posted on November 16, 2012 Leave a Comment
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Everybody is nothing until you love them. –Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo The Hotel Chelsea in [...]
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Literary Traveler: Audrey Schulman
Posted on November 13, 2012 Leave a Comment
Today, in the auditorium of the Cambridge Public Library on Cambridge Street, Audrey Schulman is a well-traveled mother, successful novelist and entrepreneur.
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It’s Not Even Past: William Faulkner In Present-Day Oxford
Posted on October 29, 2012 Leave a Comment
By Tyler Malone I was racing against time. Specifically, the clock. I had hours of sunlight left, but not much [...]
Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: 1960s, American Authors, Gravesites, Mississippi, oxford, Oxford MS, William Faulkner, Writers' Houses
