Interview with B.A. Shapiro, Author of The Art Forger
Questions and introduction by Carly Cassano; Interview executed by Francis McGovern The Literary Traveler Boston team recently had the opportunity to sit down with author…
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Caodai Calling: Victor Hugo’s Vietnam
A traveler to an architectural oddity in Tay Ninh, Vietnam, tunes in to the otherworldy call of a wacky bizarro cult.
Robinson Jeffers: The Poet and Stone Mason of Tor House
By Victor A. Walsh Carmel by the Sea was a wild, sparsely populated place when the California poet Robinson Jeffers and his wife Una arrived…
How Twilight Took Me Places I Never Thought I’d Go
I know what you’re thinking: Twilight hardly qualifies as literature, right? But I was swept up in the vampire craze, and read the each of the four …
Journeys from Words: One Literary Traveler Reflects
By Andrew Scott A good imagination can be swifter and safer than any known means of transport today. Pleasant platitude as it is. It can…
Homesick and Happy in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
By Sue Norton Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn operates, like so much of modern fiction, on planes of moral ambiguity and relativism. Few clearly correct options…
It’s Not Even Past: William Faulkner In Present-Day Oxford
By Tyler Malone I was racing against time. Specifically, the clock. I had hours of sunlight left, but not much time before Rowan Oak would…
Interview with Dennis Lehane, Novelist and Bostonian
Interview by Francis McGovern; Introduction by Amanda Festa At Literary Traveler, we’re fascinated by the places that inspire writers, which is one of the reasons our…
Socialism and Green Spaces: William Morris’s Walthamstow
By Peter Turner ‘Have you ever wondered why there’s so much suffering in the world?’ asked the suited young man. ‘Please read one of the…
Coffee and Bob Kaufman, Poet of the People
By Kerry Lee When I step through the door and catch that first, redolent wisp, that rich, provocative bouquet that doesn’t taste like it smells,…