Gatsby: Under the Red, White, and Blue
Did you know that F. Scott Fitzgerald was distantly related to the man who composed “The Star-Spangled Banner?” That, in fact, he was named after him? I didn’t – Though,…
Share
Posts by tag
New York
5 posts
Behind the Article: Rediscovering James Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Legacy
Join us as Literary Traveler takes a look “Behind the Article” with Victor Walsh, author of our August 17th article, “James Fenimore Cooper: Cooperstown’s Literary Ghost.” We were fascinated by the…
Share
Behind the Article: Taking a Closer look at “Literary Brooklyn Heights”
Join Literary Traveler as we go ‘behind the article’ with Norm Goldstein, author of our August 13th article, “Literary Brooklyn Heights.” After reading about the wealth of literary history in Brooklyn,…
Share
‘Girls’: HBO’s new comedy about ‘sex and the city’
HBO’s new comedy, Girls, has everything I look for in a television show. It is smartly written, raucously witty and excruciatingly relatable. It is a startlingly refreshing comedy in both…
Share
A Tribute to Leonard Bernstein in Somerville, Massachusetts
Leonard Bernstein was born and raised in Lawrence, Massachusetts, where his family ran a bookstore. He studied in Boston and Cambridge, as well as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In New York City…
Share