Puccini of Lucca, Italy
By James Clark Lucca, Italy is a beautiful town surrounded by a 12 metre thick and 25 metre high 16th century wall, which runs around Lucca’s…
Author: Carly Cassano
The Long Last Ride of John Kennedy Toole
By William Caverlee Biloxi, Mississippi, is only eighty-seven miles from New Orleans, a brief drive up US 90, along the Gulf Coast past Pearlington, Waveland,…
The Magic of Moleskine
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse “To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.” – Bruce Chatwin I’ve always…
Interview with B.A. Shapiro, Author of The Art Forger
Questions and introduction by Carly Cassano; Interview executed by Francis McGovern The Literary Traveler Boston team recently had the opportunity to sit down with author…
Caodai Calling: Victor Hugo’s Vietnam
A traveler to an architectural oddity in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, tunes in to the otherworldy call of a wacky bizarro cult.
Reading About The Holocaust During the Holidays
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Like any respectable book-a-holic, I cannot leave the library with fewer than three to five books. During a recent trip, I…
Robinson Jeffers: The Poet and Stone Mason of Tor House
By Victor A. Walsh Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived…
How Twilight Took Me Places I Never Thought I’d Go
I know what you’re thinking: Twilight hardly qualifies as literature, right? But I was swept up in the vampire craze, and read the each of the four …
The Hotel Monteleone: New Orleans Literary Landmark
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Everybody is nothing until you love them. –Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo The Hotel Chelsea in New York is a literary…
Dennis Lehane’s Live by Night: Island of Misfits
By Wes Newbury “As far as the writer as an outlaw,” said Dennis Lehane in his Literary Traveler interview, “we are sort of the square pegs,…