A Visit to Harper Lee’s Monroeville
By Caroline Kerr Taylor It was a blistering hot and muggy August day when I arrived in Monroeville, Alabama. After parking on the town square…
Author: Carly Cassano
Weaving Tales: The Tools of Text
By Janice Horton On a back road in an out of the way township in northeast Pennsylvania, a seasonal museum celebrates the crafts of spinning…
Jack Kerouac and John Steinbeck on the Californian Coast
By Kat Clay The moment I saw him I knew he was the man I would marry. A twenty-minute conversation changed my life; in those…
“The pears fatten like little buddhas”: Inscribing Sylvia Plath onto Central Java
By Audrey McGlinchy I opened my notebook on a return flight from Jakarta, Indonesia to Chiang Mai, Thailand, my home for the past nine months.…
JM Barrie and The Gardens of Imagination
By Paul Millward “On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear…
Man’s Last Chance: Impressions of Central America
By Klas Lundström Think about isolated zones, and you’ll end up in Latin America’s most gridlocked valleys: the Mosquito Coast, in the heart of Central America,…
In Search of Trocchi’s Cain
By Stephen Wilton A walk through the docks that line the murky waters of the River Clyde lays echo to the once thriving Glaswegian shipyards.…
James Fenimore Cooper: Cooperstown’s Literary Ghost
by Victor A. Walsh By mid-morning on this dreary gray Sunday, crowds of people dressed in shorts and sporting baseball caps, are bustling in and…
Literary Brooklyn Heights
by Norm Goldstein “I live in Brooklyn,” Truman Capote once wrote. “By choice.” He described the New York City borough, for the most part, as…
The House And The Horrors Of Horacio Quiroga
By Antony Mapes In small town San Ignacio, the population seems to be permanently on siesta. There’s one cash machine, few shops and only a…