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The New York Times travel section has published a book called Footsteps, from Ferrante’s Naples to Hammett’s San Francisco: Literary Pilgrimages Around the World. People seek out the places where authors lived, where they were inspired, where they wrote, and write about those connections. There were some issues with a couple of the essays, but I enjoyed the book for the most part—most of the essays were well-written and fascinating.To begin with the bad. First, unsurprisingly the book is biased
Whenever I go on vacation, my family knows that wherever we go, I will check before we leave to see what literary stops we can make. In the past, we have gone to the rugged shores of Rachel Carson’s Maine, the boardinghouse that Thomas Wolfe grew up in and wrote about, Carl Sandburg’s Connemara in Flat Rock (one of my favorite places because it looks exactly as it did when the poet laureate lived here and makes one think that he just stepped out for a minute), Edgar Allen Poe’s dorm room at the
Christmas gift last year that I have been enjoying all year and just finished up. Great armchair travel book with a literary bent!
A cohesive compilation of relatively short literary travel pieces. Each author visits a place that was important to the writer whose footsteps they were following, from Orhan Pamuk's Istanbul to Mary Oliver's Maine island. The relative brevity of each essay meant there was always something to look forward to, even if a specific essay didn't capture your fancy.
A wonderful book if you like travelogues and discovering new authors.
Very enjoyable, very inspiring for future reading, and the next best thing to wish fulfillment traveling in this day and age. Some are better than others but as always, I wish these journalists would include more columns about Asian/African authors in Asian/African countries rather than the white authors who happened to visit or glorify them.
Someday, one state at a time, one country at a time. New places to consider checking out in our next trip!
Short stories about places made famous in novels and literature. Very engaging, and if one didn't suit your fancy the next one might!
This has been my bedtime reading for several weeks now, and it sent me off to sleep with visions of the haunts and landscapes of authors, some of my favorites, and some of whom I've never read. As finances and circumstances prevent me from getting to most of these places, it was an excellent way to travel.
My favorite column in the New York Times Travel section has its very own book, and I'm super excited and honored to have three pieces collected within. Footsteps is the best travel inspiration, whether you're headed somewhere exotic, or journeying from your armchair.
A wonderful literary tour book that can guide not only your imagination but perhaps inspire some literary travels as well. Essays cover hometown cities, travel destinations, and inspirations from poets, playwrights, and novelists in the past two centuries. At least a third (if not more) of the literary pilgrimages are in the US, but these are all taken directly from The New York Times so it's not a huge shock. Quite a few of the authors I had never heard of but became entranced with after readin...
This collection of NYT essays links writers to place in often entertaining and interesting ways, from O’Connor’s small town Georgia to Jamaica Kincaid’s Antigua. Most are very brief and involve the essayist visiting the sites and linking their readings of the original literature with the places they find themselves as modern tourists. It’s a good next to the bed collection. But I have to say I found some unsatisfying, even superficial. In any case, pick and choose and enjoy as you will.
If you read the NYT travel section, you've likely read these reprinted stories. Not coincidentally, the ones I didn't remember were probably the ones I didn't prefer in their original incarnation.
