Biography

pen4hire on October 6th, 2009

Destination: Belize Book: The Possibility of Everything by Hope Edelman UPDATE: LIBRARY THING INTERVIEW WITH HOPE EDELMAN A Guest Blog by Julia Drake “The Possibility of Everything — Search for a truer self” The Possibility of Everything, acclaimed author Hope Edelman writes, “A person in the act of traveling from one place to another is [...]

Continue reading about Book Puts Belize at Top of Writer’s List




pen4hire on May 27th, 2009

Destination: New Orleans, LA, United States Book: Nine Lives, Death and Life in New Orleans by Dan Baum Just in case you think this book has something to do with how a tourist survives a Sazerac hangover, forget it. The latest addition to my traveler’s library tells about the lives of real people who survived [...]

Continue reading about A Book About Surviving in New Orleans

pen4hire on February 27th, 2009

(Since Robert Todd Felton’s computer decided it did not want to blog today—died on a train to New York– I’m filling in with more thoughts on Boston, the subject of our prize book.  Felton will be back on Monday, and we will have the drawing for his travel book on Boston as scheduled, after midnight [...]

Continue reading about Boston and American History

pen4hire on February 10th, 2009

Books: – The Islandman by Tomas O’Crohan – Peig: The Autobiography of Peig Sayres of Great Blasket Island Destination: Blasket Islands, Ireland Read my guest blog on the books of the Blasket Islands at Info Ireland. And my personal thanks to Info Ireland for allowing me to share this corner of Ireland. See other posts [...]

Continue reading about Books from the Blasket Islands in Ireland

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205