http://literarytraveler.net The Community for Literary Traveler Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:17:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en More than any other decade, the 1960’s have come to represent an almost mythical time in American history.  Perhaps this is why we return to them, again and again, in books, movies, and song.  The nostalgia for this bygone era is thick and long lasting, lingering into generations of young ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/03/10/flower-power-ken-kesey-and-the-lasting-allure-of-1960s-america/ Every Friday, starting this week, the staff at Literary Traveler will gather up the relevant book news from around the web, bringing it together in a handy post for book lovers to peruse.  Enjoy! Will the iPad change the very way we read?  It certainly seems possible.  Penguin and Apple have ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/03/05/friday-links-book-news-from-around-the-internet/ It seems that March is monastery month here at Literary Traveler.  With the weather starting to warm ever so slightly, there is a breath of spring in the air, which has always felt more like renewal to me than any January 1st resolution. But with renewal also comes return, and that ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/03/02/long-strange-trip-visiting-monks-reading-merton-in-kentucky/ Often our greatest epiphanies occur at the most mundane moments.  Like Archimedes and his tub, we tend to stumble into truth with our vision blurred and arms outstretched.  However, there are men who dedicate their lives to the discovery and unveiling of holy and sacred truths. Hermann Hesse was one of ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/03/01/epiphany-in-the-monastery-hermann-hesse-in-maulbronn/ Welcome to our new community site. If you are visiting us for the first time, please consider joining our beta and blogging with us. We will be blogging about articles on Literary Traveler, and featuring other blogs, blogs like yours! That's right you can get your very own blog on ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/02/26/welcome-to-the-literarytraveler-net-beta/ It's been a brutal winter for many of us.  Cold and snowy, icy and slippery.  As I write this post, heavy wet snowflakes, though delightful and beautiful, descend upon my area of the world.  Forecasters predict it will snow until tomorrow with accumulations of up to one foot of the ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/02/25/mexico-literature-authors-lts-mexican-series/ Friday, March 5 marks the release of Tim Burton’s “Alice In Wonderland.” After checking out the Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA in New York at the end of January, I predict a scrawling, blubbering, rubberized, even colorized interpretation of Lewis Carroll’s hallucinatory Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Burton’s muse Johnny ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/02/16/alice-in-wonderland/ Moviegoers anxiously await the February 19, 2010 release of Shutter Island.  Adapted from the novel written by award-winning author Dennis Lehane, the film is sure to do well in the box office with swoon-worthy leading man Leonardo DiCaprio. Lehane is also the crime novel mastermind behind Mystic River and Gone Baby ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/02/14/dennis-lehane-shutter-island-movie-release/ "Neal is, of course, the very soul of the voyage into pure, abstract meaningless motion. He is The Mover, compulsive, dedicated, ready to sacrifice family, friends, even his very car itself to the necessity of moving from one place to another." --William Burroughs, on Neal Cassady Neal Cassady--legendary figure of ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/02/04/chasing-a-phantom-neal-cassady/ In The Catskills was originally published by Houghton Mifflin in 1910. Tomorrow, the publishing house is re-releasing John Burroughs selected writings about his home in the Catskills and his observational travels through them. When I moved out to Boston from Buffalo, I thought I would work for an established publishing house ... http://literarytraveler.net/2010/01/28/in-the-catskills-selections-from-the-writings-of-john-burroughs/