The Literary Traveler, essays by Walter Cummins and Thomas E. Kennedy.

Literary Travelers Thomas E. Kennedy and Walter Cummins set off for an afternoon with J. P. Donleavy in his Irish mansion, to visit the Paris of Hemingway, the Lisbon of Bernardo Soares, Joyce's Dublin and his gravesite in Zurich, the Ionian home of Lefcadio Hearne where Sappho plunged to her death (or did she?), the Victorian pubs of London where Phileas Fogg made his famous wager, Synge's Aran Islands, Voltaire's Ferney, the luxurious abode of Baroness Varvara in Copenhagen, the “secret” erotic shrine of Emanuel Vigeland in Oslo, Robert Graves's Mallorca, and the digs and haunts of scores of New York writers, Helsinki, Chicago, Florence, Venice, Slovenia, the Rhine of Goethe and Byron, the Alps, Stonehenge, Oxfordshire, the mysteries of the Yorkshire Dales, and the poets and pubs of Edinburgh's Auld Reekie. Journey with them, off the beaten path, down the narrow alleys, up the mountains, and into the pubs in search of literary history.

Walter Cummins has published more than one hundred stories, two story collections, two novels and many articles. From 1984 to 2002, he was editor-in-chief of The Literary Review. He is on the editorial board of Web del Sol and is a prose editor of Tiferet.

Thomas E. Kennedy's many books include the recent Copenhagen Quartet (2002-2005), a quaternity of novels in four different styles set in the four seasons of the Danish capital, all published by Wynkin deWorde (www.deworde.com), also subject of the DVD documentary, Copenhagen Quartet, produced by Harper College (info@deworde.com).