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Literary Tourism: Bukowski’s L.A. Haunts

By Alfredo Madrid

September 29, 2014

Chasing the Dirty Old Man’s ghost through the City of Angels.

Charles Bukowski: Laureate of Lowlife L.A.

By Nicholas Laskin

August 15, 2014

Remembering the Dirty Old Man and his relationship to Los Angeles.

Take a Virtual Summer Road Trip: Authors on Great American Cities

By Michelle King

June 20, 2014

Mark Twain in Boston, Ayn Rand in New York, Henry Miller in Los Angeles — whether they hated it there or loved it dearly, these authors had a lot to say about U.S. metropolises.

Literary Tourism: Bloomsday Across the U.S.

By Ellen Girardeau Kempler

June 16, 2014

New York, Wichita, Los Angeles — celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses regardless of where you are.

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