Jaclyn Tilks

Ghosts, Memories and Lobster Rolls: A Visit to Block Island and the Past.

By Billy Finn We drove about three hours north from New York City, fighting traffic the whole way. It was a humid, cloud-choked morning in mid-July and we sat with…

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Times Have Changed: Down And Out In Paris, 85 Years On

By Jonathan Moore Down And Out In Paris And London, George Orwell’s iconic memoir of his time spent working in Parisian kitchens and living jobless on London’s streets, was first…

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Traveling Through the Land of the Eternal Spring: A Literary Journey

By Mark D. Walker Several of my fellow writers asked why I’m so passionate about Guatemala and its people. The answer is simple: as a young man out of college,…

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Taras Shevchenko University, Kyiv, Ukraine

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Gogol in Ukraine

April 6, 2022

By Irene Zabytko I’ve been to Ukraine many times, mostly to visit family and friends. But like most people in the world these days, it’s been devastating to witness the…

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The Feeling of Moher

By Savannah Barrow In The Symbolism of Poetry, W.B. Yeats writes: “All sounds, all colours, all forms, either because of their pre-ordained energies or because of long association, evoke indefinable…

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Alone in Namibia with Martha Gellhorn

By Piia Mustamäki “You are alone?” The young woman’s raised left eyebrow gave away her surprise. It was Christmas Day during a pandemic and I had just driven 10 miles…

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Literary Sites of New England

By Kevin Brown When most people think about visiting New England to explore literary sites, they think first of Boston. While Boston has some places worth visiting, it works better…

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Rushing to Berlin

By Lev Raphael On my first German book tour, I was so excited to be going that I didn’t think through the connections or the times involved, I just said…

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Sailing the Baltic with a Shakespearean Sensibility

By Maggie Hirt Sailing is filled with high highs and low lows just like William Shakespeare’s comedies and tragedies. At different points of everyday, as in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,…

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Dobrogea – one of the richest yet overlooked regions of Romania

By Iulia Hau Dobrogea, the Romanian region placed in the vicinity of the Black Sea, is often overlooked by locals and rarely visited by foreign travelers. The Romanian seashore on…

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