From Page to Picture: The Dilemmas of Adaptation
By Paul Millward, As someone who has always been hopelessly in love with both the printed word and the moving image, I have over the years, watched with varying degrees…
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“A Fitting Costume to Our Last Act:” Mary Shelley’s Alpine Redemption
by Danielle Pearson, When Mary Shelley looked at the Alps, she did not see mountains, lakes and trees. Instead, she saw an earthly paradise, a landscape so sublime that words…
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The Most Complete Derangement: William S. Burroughs and Ayahuasca
Words By Jana DeBusk, artwork by Elizabeth Lous. “This is the most powerful drug I have ever experienced. Yage is not like anything else. It produces the most complete derangement of…
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Who Was The Real Don Draper? Literary Traveler Investigates
By Alex Nicoll Don Draper is one of the most distinctive characters in the history of American television. From his slicked hair to his seemingly bottomless glass of bourbon, the star of…
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Why I Love Biographies, Even If They’re Not Great: ‘Fire and Rain: The James Taylor Story’
By Antoinette Weil. Fire and Rain is one of the most memorable and well known James Taylor songs, and is also the title of Ian Halpernin’s biography about the iconic…
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Barry Hannah’s Late Love Song to Mississippi: “Get Some Young”
By William Caverlee. In devising his strange fictions, Mississippi’s Barry Hannah was nearer to a poet and musician than a prose writer, and his language inventions reached a peak in…
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Letters To The Places We Miss The Most: Marlborough, New Zealand
Dear Marlborough, New Zealand, Last week, I was in a wine shop and saw your name on a Sauvignon Blanc label. I admit I was looking for it. I never…
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Discovering Morrissey’s Manchester
By Brian Baer Approaching my first Christmas in Manchester, UK, I bellied up to the bar in my favorite Portland Street pub. The Fab Cafe had been my regular hangout…
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Love in Graphics: Reviewing Brian K. Vaughan’s Epic ‘Saga’
By Alina Sutherland Saga Vol. 1 opens with a singular image of a woman’s face. Her teeth clenching together, sweat pops off her forehead and a small sentence snakes across…
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We Recommend This App: Trover, A Social Network for Travelers
By Alex Nicoll. Trover is an image-hosting app created by the founder of Expedia. In this age of Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (and Tumblr and Pintrest and…) you’d be forgiven if…
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