Graham Greene’s Vietnam – The Quiet American
By Literary Traveler The Quiet American by Graham Greene ought to be required reading for anyone planning a visit to Vietnam. For more than forty…
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L. Frank Baum – The Man Behind The Curtain
By Linda McGovern Chances are you have seen the 1939 MGM movie, The Wizard of Oz, at one point or another in your lifetime. But…
Beethoven in Vienna
Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms (among others) are symbolized in Vienna not only with monuments but also with museums (two, in Schubert's case: hi…
Robert Frost in the Dismal Swamp
The first book of poetry that Robert Frost published was a small volume entitled Twilight. Frost published Twilight on his own. It was intended as a gift…
The Frost Farm – The Homes and Roads of Robert Frost
By Francis McGovern For each reader of Frost there is a different poet and poem. We can make our own meaning of his work. To…
The Frost Farm – The Homes and Roads of Robert Frost
For each reader of Frost there is a different poet and poem. We can make our own meaning of his work. To celebrate that work…
Shakespeare & Company
By John Affleck For Ernest Hemingway, the walk from his Latin Quarter flat to Gertrude Stein’s pavillon at 27, rue des Fleurs, would have been…
Thomas Wolfe: Look Homeward Angel
In the novel, Look Homeward Angel, Thomas Wolfe described the stone statue of an angel, which stood for years on the porch of his father”s…