Spooky Places: Burritt Alley, San Francisco
Walk through Union Station, Chinatown and the Tenderloin in San Francisco and although everything is in colour, the black and white world of Dashiell Hammett.
Spooky Places: The Edgar Allan Poe Museum in Virginia
After one semester at the University of Virginia where he racked up gambling debts, Poe and the family that took him in parted ways and he was left on his own.
This Week in Literary History: Oct. 24 to Nov. 2
Oct. 24: In 1958, Raymond Chandler begins work on his last book, a Philip Marlow mystery, completing four chapters of The Poodle Springs Story before his death a year later.
Whatcha reading these days?
After my trip to Wales, I picked up Andrew Lycett’s excellent biography Dylan Thomas. A New Life to re-read.
This Week in Literary History Oct 13 to 19
Oct. 13: In 1686, wigmaker and bookseller Allan Ramsay was born in Lanarkshire and later start Scotland’s first lending library around 1720 in Edinburgh.
Baltimore: Death of Edgar Allan Poe
BALTIMORE — No one was suppose to grieve the death of Edgar Allan Poe. The man who penned the writer’s obituary tried his best to make sure no one would remember Poe favourably.
This Week in Literary History: October 5th to October 12th
Oct. 5: On this day in 1829, the Comédie-Française accepts Hermani, Victor Hugo’s play about royal intrigue in the Spanish court, for publication.
Hong Kong hustle, post-Wales serenity
HONG KONG — I cannot think of two countries more different than Hong Kong and Wales.
Traveling 9/11/11 and 31/12/99
My assignment on the turn of the millennium was to be in the air at the stroke of midnight.
Wales bound then Hong Kong and Singapore
Hey folks, Sorry for the lack of posts. Appreciate you continuing to follow Literary Places. News doesn’t stop even in the dog days of August so it’s been a bit of a mad rush.