Bookish Beaufort
By Suzanne Kamata The first cannonball shot of the American Civil War may have been fired from Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, but the…
Tag: Literary Travel
Exploring the Literary South: 5 Texas Destinations for the Literary Traveler
By Hannah White I grew up spending summers in the Piney Woods of deep East Texas with my late father’s family. Texas was his home…
A Trip to Boston’s Literary District: Visiting Louisa May Alcott’s Beacon Hill Haunts
By Hannah White Boston is a city rich in literary history that many famous writers including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, and Henry David Thoreau…
Crime Writers Tour: In Search of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie
By Stephen Margrett With an appreciative nod to Wilkie Collins and others who blazed the trail, it really started with Sherlock Holmes. In his first…
Macondo Magic and Other Blessings
By Suzanne Adam The death of Gabriel García Márquez prompted me to reread his Nobel-winning One Hundred Years of Solitude,“Cien Años de Soledad” in Spanish—the…
The Most Complete Derangement: William S. Burroughs and Ayahuasca
Words By Jana DeBusk, artwork by Elizabeth Lous. “This is the most powerful drug I have ever experienced. Yage is not like anything else. It produces…
Literary Destination: The Fitzgerald Museum in Montgomery, Alabama
When we imagine F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda, we tend to think of them in some New York ballroom, sipping champagne and dancing…
Festival Season Preview: The Hay Festival Returns to Kells
by G.J. Schear Kells. The very name suggests books. One of the most famous in the world, The Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript of…
Bookstore Review: Word, A Haven for Bookish Types in Brooklyn
by Haley Houseman On a bright and sunny corner of hip Greenpoint, there is 850 square feet set aside for books and the community they…
A Weekend Away: The Quickie Culture Guide to Prague
by Audrey Burns Prague, the beautiful and historic capital of the Czech Republic, was home to Bohemian kings and queens, a cultural center of the…