Bookstore Review: le lièvre de mars, Marseille, France
by Johanna Pittman Normally I’m not much of a book aesthete—despite a dislike of electronic reading, I’ve never been drawn above all else to the…
Category: Travel
Choose Your Own Adventure: Bus Trips to Spark Your Wanderlust
By Amanda Festa The idea of the road trip is magic. It is a different kind of travel, about the journey far more than it…
Travel for Women, Minus the Baggage: 8 Things We Learned at the Women’s Travel Fest
By Jessica Monk “I think that as women we’ve got the same messages since little girls. If you think of red riding hood, it’s don’t…
“Put the Map Away” and Other Travel Tips from Samantha Brown
By Amanda Festa Literary Traveler recently attended the first Women’s Travel Fest in New York — one day, countless inspiring and passionate women from all over…
Safe, Solo, and Female: How to Book a Room of One’s Own and Have the Best Trip of Your Life
by Jessica Monk It’s a cliché but traveling alone really does help you rediscover the self that’s buried under the layers of dust. It’s the…
Irish Day Tours: History, Scenery, Lit & Laughs
By Antoinette Weil At Literary Traveler, we encourage our readers to travel. We specifically feature a varied selection of literary themed tours—for obvious reasons—that last…
Powell’s Books: Portland’s Iconic Independent Bookstore
By Alyssa Smith Ranked higher than a visit to the International Rose Test Garden or a bite from one of Voodoo Doughnut’s creatively named pastries,…
Doorways into Dante’s World
By Jessica Monk Dante’s Italian epic poem, The Divine Comedy, is a work as rich and populous as a walled medieval city. But though its…
Beyond Joyce: Exploring Literary Dublin
Marsh Library By Caitlin O’Hara As an Irish citizen with family in the southeast corner of the country, I have visited Ireland 12 times, and…
Connecticut: A Literary Pilgrimage
By Jamie Worcester “There was no style of living to be compared with the simple, dignified order of a true New England home…” –Harriet Beecher…