Shirley Jackson’s Outsider Perspective of Bennington, Vermont
by Katy Kelleher Leaf season had already peaked and the famous green mountains had faded to a burnished gold. The vibrant, shocking colors of autumn…
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Loving Poetry with Robert Pinsky’s Singing School
By Caitlin O’Hara On love, on grief, on every human thing, Time sprinkles Lethe’s water with his wing. -Walter Savage Landor, “On Love, on Grief”…
Looking back: Wharton, Fitzgerald, and Ourselves
By Caitlin O’Hara Think of favorite endings of books that really resonate: Levin and his revelation towards goodness at the end of Anna Karenina. Molly Bloom’s return…
CUBA – WHAT NOW? WHAT NEXT?
Destination: Cuba Dates: April 13-24, 2016 For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler. 1-855-LIT-TRVL Readings: Secret Inventory of Havana by Abilio Estévez, 2012 Cuban…
Jurassic World: Why the Least Believable Character is not Indominus Rex
By Amanda Festa Jurassic World is a fantastically fun movie and anyone who wants to escape life and the heat for a few hours should…
The 2015 Literary Fauxscars: The Results are In!
Every year, the staff of Literary Traveler has a lot of fun watching and discussing the year’s best (and not-so-great) literary adaptations. From contemporary fiction…
Current Events and the Big Screen: ‘Rosewater’ and the Arab Spring
By Haley Houseman. Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show encourages us to take our current events with both seriousness and levity, but the crux of his directorial…
‘American Sniper’ and the Problem of Adapting Memoir
By Antoinette Weil As American Sniper settles into the throne of top-grossing war movie of all time, the controversy surrounding the film has yet to cease. Cries…
The Hundred-Foot Journey: Comforts of Food and Home
By Haley Houseman The Hundred-Foot Journey is as much about the homes we carry with us, as it is about the food and culture that…
The Theory of Everything: An Imperfect Romance of Love and Science
By Alex Nicoll The Theory of Everything begins with a scene of Stephen Hawking riding a bicycle. This image is all foreshadowing: of Stephen’s impending…