The Hennessy Hammock: A Must-Have for the Adventurous Literary Traveler
By Wes Newbury The rain came down like lead pellets sprayed from an Uzi. I could hear the river raging just below the bank and the dull thump of our…
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Caodai Calling: Victor Hugo’s Vietnam
A traveler to an architectural oddity in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, tunes in to the otherworldy call of a wacky bizarro cult.
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Wine Tasting in Eger, Hungary
By Katy Kelleher When Americans talk wine, there are a few places that tend to pop up in conversation again and again. France, Italy, California and most recently, South America…
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Reading About The Holocaust During the Holidays
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Like any respectable book-a-holic, I cannot leave the library with fewer than three to five books. During a recent trip, I picked up Bernhard Schlink’s The…
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Robinson Jeffers: The Poet and Stone Mason of Tor House
By Victor A. Walsh Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived in 1914. Drawn to the…
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How Twilight Took Me Places I Never Thought I’d Go
I know what you’re thinking: Twilight hardly qualifies as literature, right? But I was swept up in the vampire craze, and read the each of the four books (Twilight, New Moon, Breaking Dawn, Eclipse) in Stephanie Meyer’s series.
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The Hotel Monteleone: New Orleans Literary Landmark
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Everybody is nothing until you love them. –Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo The Hotel Chelsea in New York is a literary icon, but it’s southern counterpart,…
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Book Review: Smilla’s Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
I long to travel to snowy regions and see the place where the ocean turns to thick, churning ice. But since I can’t hop a plane to Greenland, I do the second best thing: I read about it.
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Dennis Lehane’s Live by Night: Island of Misfits
By Wes Newbury “As far as the writer as an outlaw,” said Dennis Lehane in his Literary Traveler interview, “we are sort of the square pegs, and the world is the…
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Literary Traveler: Audrey Schulman
Today, in the auditorium of the Cambridge Public Library on Cambridge Street, Audrey Schulman is a well-traveled mother, successful novelist and entrepreneur.
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