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I thought to myself, when was the last time I’ve been to a haunted house?  Not since I was a kid, for sure.  So I jumped at the chance to go to Horseman’s Hollow, a literary haunted event run by the Historic […]

One of the great things that we get to do as part of Literary Traveler is take a neat trip now and then. Not all of the time mind you, but sometimes everything aligns and we get to take a once in a lifetime […]

It’s the Christmas season at Literary Traveler.  I’m personally very excited because I’ll be attending the first Christmas fair of the year this Saturday.  I’m going to the Evening Candlelight Tour at Washington […]

Vladimir Nabokov, the scandalous author of Lolita and The Original of Laura, will have his love letters to his wife Vera published in 2011.  His son, Dmitry, found the 300 unpublished letters in Vera’s archives. […]

An evening candlelight tour at Washington Irving’s Sunnyside home in Tarrytown, NY seemed like the perfect way to kick off the holiday season.

Sunnyside is perched atop the Hudson River, allowing for striking […]

I had wanted an article about Winston Churchill on Literary Traveler for a long time.  But I didn’t want the average run-of-the-mill article about Churchill and his life as Prime Minister and a historian.  […]

Russians invade American book market in 2011!  Is that really true?  Actually, it is.  In my Vladimir Nabokov post, I discussed how Vladimir Nabokov’s son is publishing his father’s love letters to his mother.  […]

I read a travel book when I was in grad school.  It was about a young, Trinidadian man who traveled to India and wrote horrible things about his native country.  Now what was that book’s name?  Hmmm … Oh yeah.  […]

Amazon.com reports that the third generation Kindle is their bestselling product of all time, even beating out Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, book seven of the series.  It’s quite a feat for Amazon to have […]

Happy New Year to all our literary travelers! In order to ring in 2011, we start with a fan favorite: Agatha Christie.  She is one of those authors you just have to admire.  Her brilliantly woven stories and […]

2011 already looks like a big year for literary movies.  The much anticipated movies The Rum Diary by Hunter S. Thompson (starring Johnny Depp) and On the Road by Jack Kerouac (starring a host of famous faces […]

Where did all those travel agents go?  Remember those friendly people who would sell you fabulous tours and excursions?  You would sit down, tell them what you want and voila! … a seven-day cruise to Mexico.  […]

When the Killing’s Done by T.C. Boyle is a highly anticipated novel for 2011.  But did you know the novel is place-oriented?  In other words, we consider it a “travel” or place-oriented work of fiction.

Boyle’s […]

When I think of Agatha Christie, I definitely think of her on the Nile.  But did you know that when she visited Egypt as a kid she hated it?  I had no idea either.  One of our favorite LT writers, Veronica […]

Before legendary author J.D. Salinger’s death in January 2010, he finally came out of reclusive hiding … or at least through his army of lawyers … to fight The Catcher in the Rye‘s unauthorized sequel 60 Years […]

Paulo Coelho, famous Brazilian author of The Alchemist, reported on his blog on January 10, 2011 that the Minister of Culture of Iran has banned his books.  Coelho reports that his books have been published in […]

We’re proud to celebrate Black History Month in February 2011.  As an American-based magazine, we celebrate along with the rest of the country.  Since our publication focuses on the literary, we decided a long […]

Today, I read Chasing the elusive Northern Lights by boat by Susannah Palk for CNN Travel.  Since it’s mid-January, icy and freezing in New York right now, I thought it was an appropriate topic for today’s post.  […]

What crime has James Patterson committed?  None actually.  In fact, Patterson writes psychological thrillers rife with suspense and intrigue.  And he sets all of this crime and mayhem in our nation’s capitol, […]

Sadly, Queens Library, part of the New York City library system, has stopped buying books due to massive budget cuts.  This is in response to last year when Mayor Bloomberg asked the library to cut its spending by […]