• Freya Stark’s Afghanistan

    January 20, 2024

    By Katherine Gypson “This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in…

    Sylvia Plath and Winthrop-By-The-Sea

    October 10, 2019

    By Jeffery Round During her early years, Sylvia Plath lived in a number of places in Massachusetts. Of her youthful residences, none is more bleakly picturesque…

    Robert Louis Stevenson and Western Samoa

    September 1, 2019

    Western Samoa claims the largest proportion of full-blooded Polynesians in the world. At last count there were 162,000 of them, a collection of robust, often tattooed, sometimes obese, lava lava clad folks who live on the two main islands of Savai’i, and Upolu.

    Queen Mary 2 Interview with Author Joanne Harris

    April 2, 2019

    Interview by Jennifer Ciotta; Introduction by Carly Cassano It was a pleasure for Literary Traveler founder, Francis McGovern, and editor-at-large, Jennifer Ciotta, to travel across…

    Zora Neale Hurston, A Literary Life

    February 12, 2019

    By Michelle Potter “It was the time for sitting on porches beside the road. It was the time to hear things and talk.” – Their…

    Hemingway in the Snow

    November 19, 2018

    Hemingway’s tracks in the snow are easy to follow. This was the Hemingway of the 20’s. Back from the Great War, Hemingway was still on his way. A reporter based in Paris for the Toronto Star.

    Yasnaya Polyana Home of Leo Tolstoy

    September 25, 2018

    As the Yorkshire surroundings of Emily Bronte’s birthplace influenced Wuthering Heights, and Charlotte Bronte’s hardships at a stern high school fed her with the image…