Go behind the scenes of a new site based in Google Maps that combines geography, technology, and literature into a crowdsourced map of real locations from novels. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda ...

The age-old tradition of traveling through the American landscape is inextricably bound to the stories of those who have recorded them. For decades, adventure-seekers – many of them writers – have ...

A nub of 47 square miles, much of it punctuated by vertigo-inducing hills, most of it surrounded by ocean water - half of it the open, not-so-tranquil Pacific, the other half the calm, protected ...

The nation’s capital is well known for its political history, but what of its literary history? DC By the Book, a new project from the District of Columbia Public Library, aims to guide curious ...

Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times’ books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more ...

Mashing up the places, characters and events of various works into one shared universe isn’t exactly a new idea. Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton universe imagines that most of the great fictionalized ...

JACKSON HOLE -- Jackson Hole Writers has launched the Wyoming Literary Map, a crowdsourced digital repository of literary contacts, organizations and resources created to foster a vibrant statewide ...

Aspiring writers could easily stock their bookshelves with nothing but writing manuals. Each season, scores of them appear, the majority penned by writers with few (or no) other books to their name.

This weekend Naropa is throwing a giant Kerouac Festival, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Beat poet’s seminal novel, On the Road. There will be a marathon reading of the book, panel ...