Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings: Cross Creek
Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to…
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Hemingway’s Cuba: The Old Man and the Sea
by Brian Francis Donohue As the sun rises over the defunct fishing processing plant on the hill overlooking the bay, the backyard roosters settle into…
Beatrix Potter, More Than Just Bunnies: The Legacy of Beatrix Potter
by Deborah Straw Beatrix Potter may be best known as the creator of charming characters like Peter Rabbit, Mrs. Tiggy Winkle and Hunca Munca, but,…
From Turkmenistan to America: How I Found Langston Hughes
by Sam Tranum The boy’s hands shook slightly as he stood in front of the blackboard holding a sheet of white paper. A bead of…
Sunrise at Walden Pond
by Francis McGovern The morning was a time that offered much to Henry David Thoreau and Walden Pond seemed a fitting place to celebrate the…
Thoreau’s Other Waters: The Concord River
When reading Thoreau for the first time, a reader might assume that the writer is speaking aloud his mind, giving a voice to his innermost…
Irish Day Tours: History, Scenery, Lit & Laughs
By Antoinette Weil At Literary Traveler, we encourage our readers to travel. We specifically feature a varied selection of literary themed tours—for obvious reasons—that last…
My Friendship With John Cheever
by Chris Epting Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case…
Songs of Blue and Gold: Lawrence Durrell’s Island of Corfu
by Deborah Lawrenson By the time I reached Corfu, the season was in its last gasp. Evening hung early over the bay when I walked…
Edith Wharton’s Art History Lesson in San Vivaldo
by Don Benson In a rather remote village in the southern hills of Tuscany is an ancient monastery. There is a church and eighteen separate…