Category Archives: Literary Journeys

Posted on November 24, 2012 by kara

The other night I stumbled onto Franklin Court, Ben Franklin’s Printing Office and Bindery, Post Office and Bookshop on Market Street in Philadelphia

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Librería San Ginés and El Renacimiento books

Posted on March 7, 2012 by kara

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Posted on November 18, 2011 by kara

Wiblingen Monastery Library, Ulm, Germany The Wiblingen Monastery was founded in 1093, and remodeled in the Baroque style in the 18th century. Over the library is an inscription: “In quo omnes thesauri sapientiae et scientiae” (In which are stored all … Continue reading →

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MURDER MANOR.

Posted on September 15, 2010 by kara

It’s Agatha Christies’ 120th Birthday, so here is her scary house.

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Paris Review Names New Editor

Posted on March 5, 2010 by kara

Lorin Stein of Farrar, Straus Giroux will succeed Philip Gourevitch as editor of The Paris Review. Read Dave Itzkoff’s piece in New York Time’s Art Beat. http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/paris-review-names-new-editor/ Hopefully this will give Gourevitch time to write more books and New Yorker … Continue reading →

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The House Where Poe Didn’t Write The Raven

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kara

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief”. Wrote Edgar Alan Poe, in The Black Cat , which he penned while living in this odious row house. My … Continue reading →

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The Cellar of The House Where Poe Didn’t Write The Raven

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kara

In The Black Cat, the psychotic narrator slaughters his wife with an axe after she stops him from killing the phantasm of a cat he feels is tormenting him. He conceals her body in a brick wall in the cellar. … Continue reading →

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The Bar Where Booze Wrote The Gift of The Magi

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kara

Established in 1864, Pete’s Tavern claims to be the oldest, continuously operating bar in NYC (during prohibition, Pete’s was disguised as a flower shop!). Pete’s also boasts being the pub where O. Henry (the pen name of William Sydney Porter), … Continue reading →

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The House of Lanny Budd

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kara

I happened upon this Spanish Colonial Revival home in the Los Angeles suburb of Monrovia, a few miles from my neighborhood in Eagle Rock. It was the home to Upton Sinclair between the years of 1942 and 1966, and is … Continue reading →

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The Faux House of a Fake Detective

Posted on February 7, 2010 by kara

The quintessential “faux literary home” is that of fictional super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes: The Sherlock Holmes Museum of Baker Street. Here at 221b Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson – but not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – “lived” from … Continue reading →

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