Literary Traveler Network

By Literary Traveler staff and interns

Jessica Ellen Monk, one of our amazing contributors, came up with the idea to do a staff wishlist about literary places in  Ireland we’d like to visit in honor of St. […]

By the Literary Traveler staff

Who isn’t really into a great character from literature? Who doesn’t remember falling in love (probably for the first time) with the protagonist of a favorite book. Some of […]

Please enjoy this interesting article and accompanying pictures by The Atlantic about holidays all over the world that encourage “thanks giving”.

Here at LT, we’re grateful for the opportunity to travel, meet […]

Hi Literary Travelers,

What do you think about Stephanie Meyers’ Twilight? Is the series “literary”? Are the movies any good?

Today’s article, How Twilight Took Me Places I Never Thought I’d Go, asks whether […]

Now that Halloween is a mere whisper in the dark, Literary Traveler moves on. Over the next several days, we’ll feature posts about the literary history of Cuba. Please join us on our literary journey, and just […]

Literary Traveler has been very excited about Halloween…and it’s finally here! To celebrate, we’d like to show off all the work we did in advance of the spookiest day of the year. All Treats.

Halloween […]

Halloween is big in the Northeast – a liberating blast of Pagan thrills before the bleak snows and Puritan thrift of winter. As the festival approaches, New England’s colors turn from fresh blues and greens to the […]

By Jessica Monk

It is here at Eastham beach on Cape Cod that Henry Beston found his first refuge, in a house that he had built for himself after returning, weary, from WW1.  One September in 1926, Beston came […]

By Melissa Mapes

A winning film must succeed in three essential categories: production, performance, and plot. The Master scores highly in first two categories, but falters in the third. Surely, one may ask, a […]

“Youth In Revolt,” adapted from C. D. Payne’s 1993 novel Youth in Revolt: The Journals of Nick Twisp, directed by Miguel Arteta, comes out today.

Payne, born in Akron, Ohio in 1949, lived in the mid-West […]

Mid-March was the beginning of a false-Spring in Boston, Massachusetts. The sunshine was warm and the breezes didn’t bite, but when the sun went down the trees shook, the yards flooded, and the streets reflected […]

Arrive approximately 7:00pm at apartment/hotel. Clearly people live in this building full-time (“I’ve lived here five years and never taken the elevator,” one resident confessed), but we pickup our key from a […]

Dear Literary Travelers,

Please join our book club! Our inaugural read is Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed.

Cheryl Strayed’s memoir about the sudden illness and death of […]

In The Catskills was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1910. Tomorrow, the publishing house is re-releasing John Burroughs selected writings about his home in the Catskills and his observational […]

An adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play “The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond” comes out in theaters today. Directed by Jodie Markell, the story examines the lust and longing of Fisher Willow, a tenacious, sometimes […]

Friday, March 5 marks the release of Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland.” After checking out the Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA in New York at the end of January, I predict a scrawling, blubbering, rubberized, […]

After I finished Patti Smith’s memoir, Just Kids, I put my hand over my heart and wept. After that, I ordered a dress-form and a swath of gold leather online, dumped all my paints, pencils, brushes and duck […]

Sweden has a long tradition of Scandinavian laws that attempt to enforce social harmony. Literary Traveler and author of our latest article, Andrew Buswell, discuss how art can shed light on a country’s darkest […]

American playwright and Nobel laureate Eugene O’Neill endured certain themes in his life and work. O’Neill’s depression and alcoholism may have provided him insight into the human condition and as Victor Walsh, […]