Murakami Latitude 00º 00’ 00”
by Ian N Arnof We all know meeting our heroes isn’t a good idea. So many things can go wrong: stress from excitement, nervously speaking gibberish, not to mention being…
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Jaclyn Tilks
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“Oh! Who Can Ever Be Tired of Bath?”
by Alice Nord Jane Austen is often claimed to have disliked Bath, but to some extent, that is a conflation of her heroine Anne Elliot’s feelings about the city with…
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Anthony Burgess’ Malayan Trilogy
By James Weitz Anthony Burgess is probably best known for his novel Clockwork Orange, also made into a popular film. But few of his fans are aware that he got…
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Alistair MacLeod’s Cape Breton
By Lawrence Wells With his little dog Blossom at his side, Gil MacLeod, a native of Cape Breton Island who is related to novelist Alistair MacLeod, is leading me to…
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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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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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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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Travel from Home while Social Distancing
By Jaclyn Tilks We all know in our hearts that if we are at home social distancing, we are the lucky ones. If we aren’t sick, working on the frontlines…
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