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…
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I Am Providence: The City that Made H.P. Lovecraft
by Robert Anasi I never can be tied to raw new things, For I first saw the light in an old town, Where from my…
Shirley Jackson’s Outsider Perspective of Bennington, Vermont
by Katy Kelleher Leaf season had already peaked and the famous green mountains had faded to a burnished gold. The vibrant, shocking colors of autumn…
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…
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 Walk to Walden Pond
A Walk commemorating the importance of Henry David Thoreau Walden and Don Henley’s The Boys of Summer. Literary Traveler Home To Walden from Francis McGovern…
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.
Make Mine a Large Glass of Bleach
by Matt Kolbet Drinking port in Portugal was a natural fit. I had three souvenir bottles in my luggage, packed between wrinkled shirts and dirty socks,…