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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 […]

Many of readers here at LT are aspiring authors.  Many of you are working on that first novel, and once you’re finished, you dream of reaping the rewards of fame and money like J.D. Salinger, J.K. Rowling, Stephen […]

Just this past week, Nobel laureate Derek Walcott won Britain’s most prestigious award for poetry, the TS Eliot prize.  He won for his poetry collection White Egrets, which meditates on aging and dying.

White […]

Harry Potter is a phenomenon.  We all know that.  Even though J.K. Rowling put out her last Harry Potter book a while ago, readers still love him and want to believe in Harry and his magical powers.  His world is […]

Black History Month is finally here.  And we’re celebrating it by highlighting all of our articles about African American writers.  We’ll also be throwing in a couple Caribbean writers and an article on Ghana, so […]

Black History Month continues with Faith Ringgold, renown artist and author of the children’s classic Tar Beach.  Ringgold grew up in the Depression era in Harlem in the 1930s. As a young girl, she saw the […]

Who embodies the Harlem Renaissance more than any other writer?  Langston Hughes, of course.  This black poet created not only inspirational poetry, but poetry that is cool. Langston’s poem “Harlem” (more […]

As a black woman who was coming of age in the early part of the 20th century, it was hard for Nella Larsen to understand where she fit.  Her mother was of Danish descent, a white woman, and her biological father […]

Our latest article, Jim Morrison & Lipstick Kisses at Oscar Wilde’s Pere-Lachaise, is very rock-n-roll.  Wilde was flamboyant, fun-loving and ostentatious, so why not be buried in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, […]

Harlem is a place that is so closely imbued in the hearts of Americans everywhere.  Even tourists from around the world come to see the streets of Harlem, a once Mecca to the black artist, including the black […]