Witches, Gables and ‘Haunted Happenings’: A Visit to Salem
By Amanda Festa With Halloween quickly approaching, here at Literary Traveler, we have really gotten into the spirit of the season. For many, fall breeds…
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Literary Halloween – Part I: 5 Costumes with Character
By Jessica Monk Halloween, I confess: I’ve failed you. My costumes have been offbeat, inappropriate, and dangerously conceptual. Being a literature graduate, it’s what’s expected…
Literary Halloween – Part II: 10 Couples Costumes for Book Lovers
By Amanda Festa Couples costumes can be hard to pull off. They require the perfect mix of chemistry, good humor, and thinly veiled innuendo. And…
From Sardinia To The Sangre De Cristo Mountains: How Travel Influenced The Writings of D.H. Lawrence
by Gina Buonaguro “Comes over one an absolute necessity to move.” If one quotation could sum up a person’s life, this opening line from the…
Pablo Neruda’s Isla Negra
by Monique Filsnol “A Single Drop Lucid and Heavy.” A French admirer of Pablo Neruda visits his Isla Negra in Chile Finally, I made it…
The Beat Hotel: American Writers in Paris, 1957-1963
By Matthew Nilsson Standing on the shores of Paris’ Left Bank, tucked away on Rue Gît-le-Cœur, I check my map, look up, and there it…
The Real Story Behind Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
By Paul Millward, “A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” says Fred to Scrooge in the opening pages of A Christmas Carol, beginning the literary…
Christmas by the Book: Literature to Make Your Heart Grow Three Sizes
By Amanda Festa Some of my favorite memories of childhood are of the holiday season. Sparkling twinkle lights decorating houses, turning their ordinary facades into…
Who Wrote ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas? A Literary Debate
by Jennifer Ciotta Immersed in the Christmas season and living in New York, I’ve engaged in the typical Big Apple holiday tasks such as viewing…
I Am Providence: The City that Made H.P. Lovecraft
by Robert Anasi I never can be tied to raw new things, For I first saw the light in an old town, Where from my…