Category: Literary Travel
“Some year ago, a temporary inability to sleep, referable to a distressing impression, caused me to walk about the streets all night, for a series of several nights” Night …
Sheila Scarborough
December 29, 2011
City or urban travel, food & drink, History, Hotels and lodging, Island travel, Literary Travel, Parks and preserves, Sheila projects, Shopping, US travel
If I could spend a day going all over the US, with instant transport from one place to another and an unlimited budget, here is where I’d go and …
Christmas Eve is a time of anticipation, of reflection, a time when the hurry to do last minute needed things quiets into hush. That’s true whether the Christmas story …
If you want to induce nausea in me immediately, you will say two little words: women’s magazines. I wrote for women’s magazines for several years, and, with a couple …
My favorite travel book this year Cambodian Grrrl, by Anne Elizabeth Moore, which recounted her experiences teaching young Cambodian women about self-publishing zines in Phnom Pehn. In my review …
I’m trying to decide why “Cambodian Grrrl” is the best travel book I’ve read this year. Part memoir, part travelogue, with a dash of manifesto here and there, “Cambodian …
I’ve been browsing through Emily Post’s 1922 classic book on etiquette, which is a fantastic blend of information that’s totally outdated and some that is still entirely applicable in …
Although I’m much more of a non-fiction reader than a lover of fiction, I’ve been captivated recently by Barry Eisler’s series of John Rain thrillers (the first one is …
Fifty years ago, on a snowy winter’s day, Robert Zimmerman arrived in New York City. At first glance, he appeared to be just another college dropout drawn to the bohemian life of …
A while back, I reflected on songwriters as travel writers. Poets whose work appears on the printed page and elsewhere as you read and listen have places in travel …
The Mitchell: it’s been a good few years now since I wrote this story about my early visits to the main library in Glasgow. It remains one of my …
To really get inside the head and life of an author, it’s tough to beat a visit to their home. You can visualize and imagine, “She sat at that …