Remembering Henry James
By Tava Hoag The month of February featured the return of many television dramas. People today crave television shows that keep on going. Series that…
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“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Gives an Unlikely Lesson in Adaptation, is Awesome While Doing So
by Mary Kate Costigan As a teenager, I once made a list of inaccuracies between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and its movie…
Literary Events to Get Excited About in 2016
by Mary Kate Costigan 2015 was a great year for all things literary. Harper Lee’s long, long awaited second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was…
2015 Holiday Gift Guide: 10 Affordable Items for the Literary Traveler in Your Life
By Mary Kate Costigan, It’s that time of year again. We have reached the season of food, festivities, and incredible stress. Don’t get us wrong:…
I am Not an Original Groundling
By Michael Hartigan (From the Literary Traveler Archive) I am not an original Groundling. Nor could I ever be, what with widespread theatrical ambivalence, modern…
Spending The Holidays with Catie Copley at the Copley Plaza Hotel
By Tava Hoag and Francis McGovern If you have a little Literary Traveler (who loves to read and go out to eat!) and you are…
From Page to Picture: The Dilemmas of Adaptation
By Paul Millward, As someone who has always been hopelessly in love with both the printed word and the moving image, I have over the…
“A Fitting Costume to Our Last Act:” Mary Shelley’s Alpine Redemption
by Danielle Pearson, When Mary Shelley looked at the Alps, she did not see mountains, lakes and trees. Instead, she saw an earthly paradise, a…
The Most Complete Derangement: William S. Burroughs and Ayahuasca
Words By Jana DeBusk, artwork by Elizabeth Lous. “This is the most powerful drug I have ever experienced. Yage is not like anything else. It produces…
Barry Hannah’s Late Love Song to Mississippi: “Get Some Young”
By William Caverlee. In devising his strange fictions, Mississippi’s Barry Hannah was nearer to a poet and musician than a prose writer, and his language…