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Interview with Dennis Lehane, Novelist and Bostonian

Interview by Francis McGovern; Introduction by Amanda Festa At Literary Traveler, we’re fascinated by the places that inspire writers, which is one of the reasons our Boston-based team was so thrilled…

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Hotels

The Spirit of Salem: The Hawthorne Hotel

by Wes Newbury “The place isn’t haunted,” insists Juli Lederhaus, general manager of Salem’s Hawthorne Hotel. “There’s no documentation. People tell us they feel things, whatever, but we don’t have any…

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Articles

Coffee and Bob Kaufman, Poet of the People

By Kerry Lee When I step through the door and catch that first, redolent wisp, that rich, provocative bouquet that doesn’t taste like it smells, I wonder if anyone else…

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Articles

Weaving Tales: The Tools of Text

By Janice Horton On a back road in an out of the way township in northeast Pennsylvania, a seasonal museum celebrates the crafts of spinning and weaving. A cluster of…

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Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck on the Californian Coast

By Kat Clay The moment I saw him I knew he was the man I would marry. A twenty-minute conversation changed my life; in those first moments we both said,…

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“The pears fatten like little buddhas”: Inscribing Sylvia Plath onto Central Java

By Audrey McGlinchy I opened my notebook on a return flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Chiang Mai, Thailand, my home for the past nine months. In the failing light of…

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James Fenimore Cooper Statue, Cooper Park

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Articles

James Fenimore Cooper: Cooperstown’s Literary Ghost

by Victor A. Walsh By mid-morning on this dreary gray Sunday, crowds of people dressed in shorts and sporting baseball caps, are bustling in and out of the many baseball…

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Articles

Literary Brooklyn Heights

by Norm Goldstein “I live in Brooklyn,” Truman Capote once wrote. “By choice.” He described the New York City borough, for the most part, as a “veritable veldt of tawdriness.” …

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Books

Southern Gothic With A Magical Twist: Swamplandia!

By Katy Kelleher Set in the sparsely inhabited swamps of the Florida Everglades, Karen Russell’s Swamplandia! is gorgeous entry into the American cannon. It is a strange book, but thanks…

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Articles

Richard Scarry’s Best Luck Ever

By Melissa Mapes The bleary-eyed rabbit wrapped her paws around a coffee mug for warmth. Although we were indoors, the chill of a Bostonian spring seeped through the walls. “Some…

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