Mexico City Muse
By Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera My literary idols brought me to Mexico City last month. While D.F. (short for “Distrito Federal”in Spanish) has always intrigued me, my time here was limited to…
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Jaclyn Tilks
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Touring Colombia with the Ghost of Gabo
By Rebecca Grenham I’d wanted to head to Colombia ever since I finished Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera three years, nine months, and twelve days ago…
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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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Gogol in Ukraine
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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