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jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, A New Take on Dramatic Adaptation: The Great Gatsby Opera, on the site Literary Traveler Network 6 days, 2 hours ago

Gone are the days when literature fans were ranting traditionalists, decrying other media besides quill and parchment. These days we’re as much dependent on the screen to feed our reading habits as anyone […]

jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, The Siberian Mammoth: An Unexpected Guide to Cuba’s Revolutionary Past, on the site Literary Traveler Network 4 months, 1 week ago

The title of the documentary about the making of I Am Cuba doesn’t exactly trip off the tongue: I am Cuba, The Siberian Mammoth seems to bear an especially obscure relationship with the country. For the puzzled […]

jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, Fauxscar Nominee: Les Misérables, on the site Literary Traveler Network 4 months, 2 weeks ago

Strictly speaking, Les Misérables is not a Literary Adaption: it’s based on the musical – not the Victor Hugo novel. The story has travelled far since it was first published in France. It’s always been a big, […]

jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, The Bazaar and the Beautiful at the Boston International Book Fair, on the site Literary Traveler Network 5 months, 3 weeks ago

In these days of instant information, it’s not often that readers get to indulge their fascination with physical books as objects of desire. At first glance, the 36th Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair […]

jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, Beyond the Literary Extracts: Five New Ways to Savor Food and Literature at Thanksgiving, on the site Literary Traveler Network 6 months ago

From Proust’s Madeleines to William Faulkner’s Mint Juleps, great literature has always influenced readers’ experiences of food. What literary geek doesn’t drink a Papa Doble and think about Hemingway’s famed […]

jessicaellenmonk commented on the post, Mercy Brown: American Vampire, on the site Literary Traveler Network 6 months, 3 weeks ago

Hi Sarah, glad you enjoyed the post. Researching it was a revelation for me – especially being from Ireland. I was persuaded that this part of the world could ‘out-gothic’ any mysterious part of Eastern Europe. It […]

jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, Mercy Brown: American Vampire, on the site Literary Traveler Network 7 months ago

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 […]

jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, Living Literary History at Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables, on the site Literary Traveler Network 7 months ago

Located on the waterfront in Salem, Massachusetts, The House of the Seven Gables is a higgledy-piggledy pile of secret staircases, parlors and garrets – an eccentric collage architectural styles that has borne the […]

jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, Interview with Linda Olle, Author of the Upper East Side Cookbooks, on the site Literary Traveler Network 7 months, 1 week ago

Linda Olle’s alter ego Parsley Cresswell is an intriguing character. Glamorous, yet frugal, evasive, yet conspiratorial, she’s the perfect guide to New York’s Upper East Side. Like Parsley, Olle is an avid birder, […]

jessicaellenmonk wrote a new post, Henry Beston: A Summary of his Life and Achievements, on the site Literary Traveler Network 7 months, 3 weeks ago

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 to this retreat […]

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