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,…
Tag: American Authors
Movie Review: On the Road
By Wes Newbury A brief reflection on literature, and an even briefer one on the movie, On the Road. Jack Kerouac’s On the Road captured the beat of…
Review of Cosmopolis: The Movie
By Antoinette Weil When I chose to watch Cosmopolis as part of our Literary “Fauxscars” segment, I went in with a clean slate. That is,…
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,…
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…
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…
The Hotel Monteleone: New Orleans Literary Landmark
By Kelsey A. Liebenson-Morse Everybody is nothing until you love them. –Tennessee Williams, The Rose Tattoo The Hotel Chelsea in New York is a literary…
Literary Traveler: Audrey Schulman
Today, in the auditorium of the Cambridge Public Library on Cambridge Street, Audrey Schulman is a well-traveled mother, successful novelist and entre…
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…