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When Peter Jackson took on the gargantuan task of adapting Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings series for film, he sparked fear and excitement in the minds of million fans. There are few series quite as beloved amongst […]

The movie adaptation of Stephen Chbosky’s well-loved 1999 novel, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, tries really hard, but doesn’t really succeed. Interestingly enough, Chbosky wrote and directed Perks himself, […]

Awards season is fast approaching, which means discussion–from the subway to the water cooler–will revolve around movies, movie scores, movie locations, characters, and this year, literature.

2012 has been a […]

As I was driving into work, I heard an unnerving story on the radio. It was about Amazon, the book retailer, who now wants to take over the world. I listened with trepid curiosity as a caller in support of the […]

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 […]

This post contains spoilers for the films Before Sunrise and Before Sunset. 

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I am not usually a fan of sequels.  For me, they feel like forced afterthoughts or a way to cash in on a previous success.  Very […]

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 […]

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 […]

Cuba’s crime fiction has effectively captured the gritty struggle of Cubans through the end of the twentieth century. The genre provides an unfiltered lens for viewing the Cuban way of life. In a country where the […]

1.      The Old Man And The Sea

Ernest Hemingway (fiction, 1952)

Hemingway’s last piece of fiction to be published in his lifetime, The Old Man And The Sea was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for literature in […]

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 […]