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…
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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…
Discovering Morrissey’s Manchester
By Brian Baer Approaching my first Christmas in Manchester, UK, I bellied up to the bar in my favorite Portland Street pub. The Fab Cafe…
50 Shades of Belle du Jour: Sex, Writing, and Making Movies
Article and Illustration by Haley Houseman Despite the pearl-clutching that occurred when Fifty Shades of Grey appeared on our cultural radar, erotica has been mainstream for…
The Importance of Empathy: Walking in Loung Ung’s Footsteps in Cambodia
By Katie Steinharter They say that at the end of the day, we’re all not that different. I disagree. Life deals us all a different…
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Great Scottish Road Trip
By Danielle Pearson It is a truth universally acknowledged that every great friendship deserves a great road trip. I grew up in the gently rolling…
Finding Balance in Bali: Anaïs Nin’s Message for the Island of Gods
By Tess Joyce “The colors, the perfumes, the dances, the music of Bali stay with you because they all penetrate deeper into our psychic life;…
In Search of the Goddess: Following the Call to Kildare, Ireland
by Ruth Knafo Setton I hear the call in the deep heart’s core. – William Butler Yeats I heard it across the seas in the rustling…
A Tender Evening in JR Moehringer’s “The Tender Bar”
By Jennifer Locke The local bar: it’s a place both mythologized and longed-for, a place Americans with packed schedules and commuter lifestyles dream of in…
The Magic, the Music and the Men: Cartagena Delivers for Solo Female Travelers
To learn more about traveling to Colombia with Literary Traveler and Classical Pursuits, check out the upcoming tour here. By Jana DeBusk When I told…