Beyond Ideology: The Poetry of Separation in South Korea
The haunting parallels of separation and unification that a visit to the DMZ conjure …
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Carly Cassano
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Puccini of Lucca, Italy
By James Clark Lucca, Italy is a beautiful town surrounded by a 12 metre thick and 25 metre high 16th century wall, which runs around Lucca’s perimeter and protects the city. …
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The Long Last Ride of John Kennedy Toole
By William Caverlee Biloxi, Mississippi, is only eighty-seven miles from New Orleans, a brief drive up US 90, along the Gulf Coast past Pearlington, Waveland, Bay St. Louis, Long Beach,…
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The Magic of Moleskine
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse “To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.” – Bruce Chatwin I’ve always wished I were a Moleskine…
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Interview with B.A. Shapiro, Author of The Art Forger
Questions and introduction by Carly Cassano; Interview executed by Francis McGovern The Literary Traveler Boston team recently had the opportunity to sit down with author B.A. Shapiro at the 2012…
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Caodai Calling: Victor Hugo’s Vietnam
A traveler to an architectural oddity in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, tunes in to the otherworldy call of a wacky bizarro cult.
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Reading About The Holocaust During the Holidays
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Like any respectable book-a-holic, I cannot leave the library with fewer than three to five books. During a recent trip, I picked up Bernhard Schlink’s The…
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Robinson Jeffers: The Poet and Stone Mason of Tor House
By Victor A. Walsh Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived in 1914. Drawn to the…
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How Twilight Took Me Places I Never Thought I’d Go
I know what you’re thinking: Twilight hardly qualifies as literature, right? But I was swept up in the vampire craze, and read the each of the four books (Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn, Eclipse) in Stephanie Meyer’s series.
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The Hotel Monteleone: New Orleans Literary Landmark
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Everybody is nothing until you love them. –Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo The Hotel Chelsea in New York is a literary icon, but it’s southern counterpart,…
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