Looking back: Wharton, Fitzgerald, and Ourselves
By Caitlin O’Hara Think of favorite endings of books that really resonate: Levin and his revelation towards goodness at the end of Anna Karenina. Molly Bloom’s return…
Tag: New York
A Tender Evening in JR Moehringer’s “The Tender Bar”
By Jennifer Locke The local bar: it’s a place both mythologized and longed-for, a place Americans with packed schedules and commuter lifestyles dream of in…
“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…
Gatsby: Under the Red, White, and Blue
By Jessica Monk Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald was distantly related to the man who composed “The Star-Spangled Banner?” That, in fact, he…
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,…
Homesick and Happy in Colm Tóibín’s Brooklyn
By Sue Norton Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn operates, like so much of modern fiction, on planes of moral ambiguity and relativism. Few clearly correct options…
James Fenimore Cooper: Cooperstown’s Literary Ghost
by Victor A. Walsh By mid-morning on this dreary gray Sunday, crowds of people dressed in shorts and sporting baseball caps, are bustling in and…
Literary Brooklyn Heights
by Norm Goldstein “I live in Brooklyn,” Truman Capote once wrote. “By choice.” He described the New York City borough, for the most part, as…
One’s Self and the Other: NYC and The History of Love
I was standing alone in the Buhre Avenue station, waiting for the number six train to arrive and bring me downtown, where I would attend a going-away …
The Irrational Allure of Writers’ Houses*
*Adapted for Literary Traveler from the Introduction to A Skeptic’s Guide To Writers’ Houses By Anne Trubek Around the time the housing collapse hit New…