Road Scholarship: Literary Travel in the Age of Coronavirus
By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera Perhaps home is not a place but an irrevocable condition. -James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room. Twenty-one years ago, I moved from Massachusetts to Spain to become a professional…
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Inspired in Solitude: Travel in New England and COVID-19
by Hannah White Social distancing: a term previously unknown to most that grew in common usage seemingly overnight. Though we are living in extremely uncertain, difficult, and often lonely times…
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Henry Miller and Me
By James Michael Dorsey It was 1973 when I unexpectedly landed a job as a letter carrier in the idyllic seaside community of Pacific Palisades, California. After several previous dead-end…
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Reimagining Cities – A free webinar featuring Ken Greenberg – Thursday, June 25, 2pm Eastern
Do you want to learn more about how urban planning strategies can address the novel challenges posed by COVID-19? Or how some of the world’s most liveable cities exist thanks…
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Steve Jermanok Video Interview New England in a Nutshell
We sat down for an interview with Steve Jermanok about his new guide book New England in a Nutshell. With the forced downturn in travel and a public yearning…
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Crime Writers Tour: In Search of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie
By Stephen Margrett With an appreciative nod to Wilkie Collins and others who blazed the trail, it really started with Sherlock Holmes. In his first novel, A Study in Scarlet…
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Macondo Magic and Other Blessings
By Suzanne Adam The death of Gabriel García Márquez prompted me to reread his Nobel-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude,“Cien Años de Soledad” in Spanish—the epic novel, which traces the…
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Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Cross Creek
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time. So ends the book, Cross…
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A Literary Journey to Fireland: Tierra del Fuego
By Adam Freedman Now that virtually every inch of the planet has been charted and tamed, some part of our collective psyche has become bored. Witness the explosive growth of…
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Nella Larsen – Discovering Parallels to Nella Larsen
by Sushama Austin Nella Larsen was a Harlem Renaissance novelist, a triumph in a day and age that neither supported her gender nor humanized her race. For contemporary writers, her…
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