I have always been interested to see, up close, where writers worked and lived. Pablo Neruda’s house in Santiago, Chile, for instance, demonstrates his obsession with boats and the sea. All of the ceilings are low to the ground and the windows shaped like portholes. The house’s title “La Chascona,” comes from Neruda’s nickname for [...]
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A Fan in a Yankee’s Court: the Mark Twain House
February 4th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: Alexis · Connecticut · Hartford · Mark Twain · Travel
Should I be ashamed of my Moleskine?
July 21st, 2009 1 Comment
During an epic road trip through Texas and Louisiana last week, two disasters struck: I lost the journal I had been using for the last three months, and my manual camera fell apart. The camera was relegated for the rest of the trip to a permanent spot in the trunk, like an extremely delicate spare [...]
Tags: Alexis · David Emblidge · Travel · writing process
Back in ‘nam…
July 6th, 2009 No Comments
I began to wonder about the others. Tim had fallen well behind me, as I had stopped bothering to wait up for him…
Tags: Chris · creative nonfiction · Mekong · nonfiction · Travel · Travel Week · travel writing · Vietnam
Top 10 Writer Stalks of Summer
April 25th, 2009 No Comments
Down south where I come from, literary tourism often involves large amounts of driving–from Flannery O’Connor’s house in Milledgeville, Ga. to William Faulkner’s in Oxford, Miss. (little known fact–Ole Miss’s original mascot was actually the Yoknapatawpha Paw-paw until students lost their minds and changed it to this. A decided mistake!) Fortunately, New England is a [...]