Living in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Kolkata
By Sam Tranum Jhumpa Lahiri says many of her stories focus on Boston because it was the first place her parents landed in America when…
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The New “Meant to Be”: An Interview with YA Author Lauren Morrill
By Amanda Festa I devoured Lauren Morrill’s debut young adult novel Meant to Be in one sitting. I was visiting my college roommate in Florida for her…
“Let Them Get Dirty” and Other Lessons from the Trail: An interview with Author Patricia Ellis Herr
Introduction and questions written by Amanda Festa; interview conducted by Francis McGovern Author, mother, and hiking enthusiast, Patricia Ellis Herr’s first book, Up: A Mother…
James Joyce and the Golden Gate of Pula
By Sara Whitestone I stood in Portorata Square in Pula, Croatia, the late afternoon sun shining through the Arc of the Sergii. Today this Roman…
Bruce Chatwin and Dr Ho
By Jonathan Chatwin
The road ran unrelenting in front of me, straighter than it had any right to be in such mountainous country.
Barefoot in Hiroshima
By Thomas Kenning Hiroshima is one of those words so laden with meaning, so heavy with history, that its mere mention, without elaboration or context,…
Betty Smith Knew Brooklyn
By Amy Hamblen Growing up in the Midwest, my childhood was a whirl of swimming in strip pits, hunting for morel mushrooms in small forests,…
Beyond Ideology: The Poetry of Separation in South Korea
The haunting parallels of separation and unification that a visit to the DMZ conjure ...
Puccini of Lucca, Italy
By James Clark Lucca, Italy is a beautiful town surrounded by a 12 metre thick and 25 metre high 16th century wall, which runs around Lucca’s…
The Long Last Ride of John Kennedy Toole
By William Caverlee Biloxi, Mississippi, is only eighty-seven miles from New Orleans, a brief drive up US 90, along the Gulf Coast past Pearlington, Waveland,…