Following ‘Inherent Vice’ Down the Rabbit Hole
By Amanda Festa “What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on…
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The Giver: Adapting the Original YA Dystopia
By Antoinette Weil “The important thing is that a film doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now. But the book hasn’t gone away.…
Gone Girl: What’s Lost in Translation and Does it Matter?
By Wesley Sharer When I think of my wife I always think of her head. I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brains, trying…
The 2015 Literary Fauxscars: And the Nominees are…
By Amanda Festa Award show season is here again, and while the Academy Awards has its merits, one “Best Adapted Screenplay” category hardly seems like…
COLOMBIA: A Paradise Where Reality and Magic Blur
Destination: Colombia Dates: February 28–March 11, 2015 (11 nights) For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler. 1-855-LIT-TRVL Readings: Chronicle of a Death Foretold and…
Po’boys and Naughty Girls in N’awlins – The Land of Dreamy Dreams that Defies “Objective” Reality
Destination: New Orleans, Louisiana Dates: October 7 – 14, 2014 (7 nights) For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler. 1-855-LIT-TRVL Readings: A Streetcar Named…
ALONG THE MIGHTY MEKONG: Cambodia and Vietnam
Destination: Siem Reap to Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi Dates: October 29–November 12, 2015 (14 nights) For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler.…
IN A QUIET CORNER OF ITALY …TRIESTE
Destination: Trieste, Italy and Rovinj, Croatia Dates: September 25–October 4, 2015 (9 nights) For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler. 1-855-LIT-TRVL Readings: Selected readings…
ALICE MUNRO: MASTER OF THE CONTEMPORARY SHORT STORY
Destination: Bayfield, Ontario Dates: July 25–July 29 (4 nights) For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler. 1-855-LIT-TRVL Readings: Alice Munro’s Best: A Selection of…
TAKING YOUR SOUL FOR A STROLL: 160 Kilometers on the Camino de Santiago
Destination: Madrid to Leon to Santiago de Compostela, Spain Dates: June 13–25, 2015 (12 nights) For more information on this trip please contact Literary Traveler. 1-855-LIT-TRVL Readings:…