Jack Kerouac And The Satori Highway
By Matt Miller satori – Pronunciation: (su-tr”E, -tOr”E), n. Zen. sudden enlightenment. In 1957, Jack Kerouac, a French Canadian kid from the mill-town of Lowell,…
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The Scroll of Jack Kerouac
And the next item up for bid, ladies and gentleman, is sale # 9652- Lot 307.” This is a common introduction heard on a regular…
The Persuasive and Provincial Jane Austen
By Sara Wilson Jane Austen was a provincial lady who wrote about the provincial society she knew so well. Yet in spite of her curiously…
A Wasteland of Contradictions: The California Dreams of Nathanael West
By Tim Tejani El Centro, California lies sixty miles inside the Arizona border in Imperial County. This formidably-named milieu can pass all but unnoticed astride…
Marjory Stoneham Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas became known during her lifetime, all one hundred eight years of it, as the Everglades’ patron saint, primarily because of her 1947…
Remembering the Alcotts
By Linda McGovern The New England landscape and communities that Louisa May Alcott both cherished and used as inspiration for her writing have changed drastically…
Robert Frost in Vermont
Vermont is a splendid place in which to read. The state abounds with writers and bookstores. We are close to nature and the land; we…
Bertolt Brecht in LA
I would have never guessed fifteen years ago when I was introduced to his plays, that one day Bertolt Brecht and I would share the…
Graham Greene’s Vietnam – The Quiet American
By Literary Traveler The Quiet American by Graham Greene ought to be required reading for anyone planning a visit to Vietnam. For more than forty…
L. Frank Baum – The Man Behind The Curtain
By Linda McGovern Chances are you have seen the 1939 MGM movie, The Wizard of Oz, at one point or another in your lifetime. But…