Nella Larsen – Discovering Parallels to Nella Larsen
by Sushama Austin Nella Larsen was a Harlem Renaissance novelist, a triumph in a day and age that neither supported her gender nor humanized her…
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War Games and Winter in Finland’s Lapland: Arto Paasilinna’s The Year of the Hare
by Toma Kavonius Reading Arto Paasilinna’s The Year of the Hare once again made me yearn for a proper Finnish winter. I have always relished…
Shakespeare & Company: The Story is on the Shelves
By Jack Callahan The windows are dusty in the corners of the grilles, the glass has rippled at the bottoms of the panes, and on…
Lake Placid: The Earth Friendly Getaway
By Francis McGovern Earlier this spring, Literary Traveler had the chance to visit Lake Placid for an Earth Day Celebration. Our host and home base…
Mystery and Manners in Savannah
Call 1.844.378.2869 for more information and mention Literary Traveler ITINERARY To read Flannery O’Connor’s fiction is to be amused, provoked, and pushed to reconsider our place…
In the Kitchen with Literary Traveler: 7 Cookbooks Inspired by Literature
By Amanda Festa I’m not going to mince words here (although I am better at mincing words than I am at mincing anything edible), cookbooks…
Holden Caulfield in Winter Manhattan
by Jennifer Ciotta, Holden Caulfield generates so much inspirational buzz, he needs no introduction. This immortal character, star of The Catcher in the Rye written by…
A Harry Potter State of Mind in Winter Alaska
Photo by Paxson Woelber by Melissa Mapes The afternoon sun, bright but ephemeral, reflected off the snow, giving the expanse of Cook Inlet and the…
A Brief History Of Edward Gorey’s Creepy Cape Cod
by David Silon Cape Cod has a history going back four hundred years, that is, if you’re not counting the unwritten history of the Native…
Bram Stoker’s Dracula in Whitby
by Bruce Holmes But, strangest of all, the very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on deck from below ……