Where's Willa in 2011 New York?
Terese Svoboda, author of Bohemian Girl, traces Willa Cather’s footsteps around the City.
Willa Cather also quickly fell for the spectacle of the City. After all, men wore top hats to breakfast. But its enormous possibilities exact a price now from its tenants just the way the prairies’ seemingly unlimited opportunities did for the pioneers. All the distractions! All the ways we could fail! But mostly, what prospects! Moving from staid Pittsburgh, Cather chose to live downtown—as I did—for its Bohemian lifestyle, far from the mores of the real Bohemians she’d left behind.
Today, we are lusting after Pablo Neruda’s homes.
Clockwise, from the top: Isla Negra, La Sebastiana, and La Chascona.
Chekhov’s writing room thanks to Publishers Weekly Facebook site. (Which you should probably follow, because they tend to post a lot of photos from places where writers worked.)
We’re at the Brooklyn Book Festival: Booth #47. Come say hi!
20 writers' homes to rent
Ever wanted to sleep in Robert Louis Stevenson’s childhood home? or the Jamaican retreat where Fleming penned many of his Bond books? or the hotel where Kafka ended his engagement to fiancée Felice Bauer? Here’s your chance!
We love this selection of rare diaries.
