Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Interview with Performer Mike Randall
By Carly Cassano Did you know Charles Dickens traveled throughout Europe and the Americas performing an edited version of his novel A Christmas Carol in the 1860s…
Author: Carly Cassano
Becoming Dostoyevsky in St. Petersburg, Russia
Dostoyevsky was fond of crossroads, where stories are found in the foot traffic. Though he never owned or stayed longer than three years in any one ap…
My Own Walden
A few years ago, I had a co-worker who was forever being reprimanded for reading on the job. As his customers clamored for their Vegetable Alfredo's a…
A Transcendentalist in New York: Thoreau’s Staten Island Experience
New York's "forgotten borough" - Staten Island - is almost never considered as having any claim to literary history or distinction at all. And yet Ame…
An Encounter with William Stafford
A life that gives rise to 51 books in the short span of 79 years can certainly be regarded as literary. William Stafford lived such a life.
At Home With Virginia Woolf
By Chris Hudson In the final entry of her diary on 24th March 1941, Virginia Woolf left no clues to her impending suicide. Four days…
I am Not an Original Groundling
By Michael Hartigan (From the Literary Traveler Archive) I am not an original Groundling. Nor could I ever be, what with widespread theatrical ambivalence, modern…
Norway’s Native Children
By Julie Hatfield In preparing for a cruise along the coast of Norway last summer, I asked the cruise ship staff of the MS Nordlys,…
Buddhism the Jack Kerouac Way: A South Korean Templestay
By Ailsa Ross Jack Kerouac’s novel, The Dharma Bums, is so full of sweet words and joy that every line I read made me want…
The Faces of Vincent van Gogh
By Kerry Lee “I have moments when I am twisted with enthusiasm or madness or prophecy, like a Greek Oracle on his tripod.” – Vincent…