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Library of the Franciscan Monastery in Dubrovnik found at BookJelly.com “If you want to know a country, read its writers.” ― Aminatta Forna In my last blog post, "Getting to Know Croatian Literature and Authors through Travel (Part I)" I wrote about my travels to Croatia. As an author, I was especially interested in Croatia as… Continue reading Getting to Know Croatian Literature and Authors through Travel (Part II) by PortiaLily Taylor
© Chris Taylor, Split 2024 Recently my husband and I visited the amazing and beautiful country of Croatia, the home of my maternal grandparents. Of course, I wanted to see locations in Split where my grandparents and their parents lived, were married, and went to church. In fact, I was moved by the thought I’d… Continue reading Getting to Know Croatian Literature and Authors through Travel (Part I) by PortiaLily Taylor
Yeats Exhibit at Dublin Library, Photo by Chris Taylor “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” ― Dr. Seuss As Dr. Seuss wrote, “The more you read, the more things you will know.” And the variety of those many “things you will… Continue reading Literary Travel: Just the Ticket for Readers Looking for “Places [to] Go” by PortiaLily Taylor
“And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...” ~ Dylan Thomas from Poem in October These words of Dylan Thomas from his Poem in October symbolize his reflecting on past experiences that impacted his life and self-awareness. As I, too, consider “a shower of all my days,”… Continue reading Visiting Iconic Locations Where Dylan Thomas “Lived & Scribbled” by PortiaLily Taylor
Second in the Series "WHERE THEY LIVED & SCRIBBLED" by PortiaLily Taylor Despite being famous for “Invisible Man,” few Oklahomans have been as visible as Ralph Waldo Ellison—a man who the New York Times once said is “among the gods of America’s literary Parnassus.” — Kennedy Parker I discovered author, literary critic, and scholar Ralph… Continue reading Visiting Oklahoma City, the First Home of Ralph Ellison
Image found at https://www.neh.gov/article/oz-americas-fairy-tale “Though the best way to engage with great authors of the past is, of course, to read their work, there’s plenty to gain from visiting the places where they lived and scribbled. Touring writers’ preserved homes can help put their books in historical context or fulfill a quasi-religious need to pay… Continue reading “Where They Lived & Scribbled” Series: Visiting Coronado, the Winter Home of L. Frank Baum
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