Category Archives: Literary Travel

50 States, 50 Novels- Part 5

Finish this literary tour around the United States with these fifty novels. This post is [...]

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50 States, 50 Novels- Part 4

The United States is known for the breadth of diversity in its literature – take [...]

50 States, 50 Novels- Part 3

The United States is known for the breadth of diversity in its literature – take [...]

50 States, 50 Novels- Part 2

The United States is known for the breadth of diversity in its literature – take [...]

“I read it in a book”: Building a Literary-Inspired Bucket List

Perhaps you have an ongoing bucket list or life list of all the things you [...]

Dublin Writers Museum & American Writers Museum: Contrasts of Place

From Chicago to Dublin and back, I have seen the likes of two nations’ writers [...]

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The Wow Factor: A Visit to Mark Twain’s Grand Mansion in Hartford

“This entry hall really has the ‘wow factor,’” our tour guide drily announces, gesturing at [...]

In the Footsteps of Louisa May Alcott

During a literary pilgrimage to Concord, Massachusetts a few years ago, I visited Orchard House, [...]

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Laura Ingalls Wilder

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put foot in front [...]

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