Edinburgh, Scotland
Brian Donaldson offers "10 of the best literary haunts in Edinburgh."
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Read Carolyn Kellogg's July 17th birthday tribute to Raymond Chandler, "one of Los Angeles' greatest writers."Chandler is known for his novels, all featuring hard-boiled detective Philip Marlowe....
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The extremely wise Rebecca Solnit writes about the care and feeding of hope.Hope, on the other hand, is based on uncertainty, on the much more realistic premise that we don’t know what will happen...
View ArticleSan Francisco (and, of course, Paris)
There are a number of excellent exhibitions at Northern California museums currently, including The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde at the San Francisco Museum of Modern...
View ArticleDublin, Ireland
Author John Banville (pen name Benjamin Black) describes Dublin noir.Like his protagonist, Black's Dublin setting is flawed, but full of character. 'I suppose I love this place,' Black says. 'I feel...
View ArticleNew York, New York
Christopher Reynolds shares some "New York City's spots for book lovers."So, old-fashioned book people, hit literary Manhattan soon and hard. Even if you have only three days, as I did earlier this...
View ArticleEgypt
Negar Azimi considers the question -- "what do Egypt's writers do now?"Still, his tale [Waguih Ghali's 'Beer in Snooker Club'] presents uncanny parallels to today’s Egypt, where artists, intellectuals...
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Writer and translator, Jesse Browner, explains why we "must read" A Month in the Country, by J. L. Carr.Most importantly, Tom needs to be healed, as we all do to some extent, and he is — by the...
View ArticleNew Orleans, Louisiana
In the September issue of Smithsonian, Randy Fertel explains why New Orleans is "my kind of town."New Orleans is a Southern anomaly: in the South but not of the South, more Catholic (or pagan) than...
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Lake Tahoe, California
As a frequent visitor to Lake Tahoe, it’s only recently that I finally picked up the first in Todd Borg’s mystery series, followed by the second, third, fourth, and fifth novels -- and I’m still...
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