Thoreau’s Other Waters: The Concord River
When reading Thoreau for the first time, a reader might assume that the writer is speaking aloud his mind, giving a voice to his innermost thoughts, opinions and edicts. I…
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Hay Festival Brings Excitement and Surprises to Kells in County Meath
Words By Geri Schear The international Hay Festival will be returning to Kells, in County Meath for a third year this June 25 to 28th. The first day of the festival will be…
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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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We Recommend This App: Eat Smart Abroad
Travel is increasingly a competition of access: who know what the locals know? Who knows the secrets of where to eat and visit? It can be exhausting as it is…
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We Recommend This Case: Amzer Crusta
Are you an accident-prone traveler? Messy? Or maybe just adventurous? If you need to keep the sand of the Sahara out of your phone, or you’re worried about dropping that…
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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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