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.
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.
Hong Kong hustle, post-Wales serenity
HONG KONG — I cannot think of two countries more different than Hong Kong and Wales.
Literary Travel: Civil War and the story behind the photograph
The American Civil War was the most devastating conflict the United States ever endured.
Literary Travels - Angel Island, California (Part 2)
Angel Island, CALIFORNIA – Today, Angel Island is a tranquil 30-minute ferry ride across the bay from Fisherman’s Wharf past Alcatraz Island.
The Montgomery, Alabama of Zelda Fitzgerald
Montgomery, ALABAMA – Before she became the world’s most famous flapper, she was known around her hometown as Zelda Sayre
Literary Travels: Alabama's Gulf Coast
Gulf Coast, ALABAMA – Stare straight ahead towards the horizon at the edge of the Gulf Coast of Alabama.
Travels in Zurich: Fraumunster and Marc Chagall
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND — Artist Marc Chagall was already a tired old man in 1967 when he was invited to sit facing the blank windows of this town’s most famous church.
Stockholm, Sweden and the Nobel Prize for Literature
STOCKHOLM. SWEDEN — Every Thursday, the members of the Swedish Academy gather at Europe’s oldest restaurant, the Den Gyldene Freden in Stockholm.