Poets House is a literary center and poetry archive – a collection and meeting place in New York that invites poets and the public to join the living tradition of poetry. Free and open to the public, Poets House’s 50,000-volume poetry library is…

The Greenwich Village Literary Pub Crawl has been leading tourists into bars rich in bookish history since 1998. Inside each bar, you take a drink and listen as your actor/tour guide tells of the history of the establishment and of the great authors…

Richard Minsky is a celebrated American book artist,  bookbinder and scholar who at age 13 got his first printing press. In 1968, he graduated cum laude in economics from Brooklyn College, was then awarded a fellowship at Brown University, got…

Place, Process and Literary Tourism

Without question, Friedrich Nietzsche is the go-to guy for those who want to sound smart at a cocktail party.  He’s a philosophical superstar, ‘ the grandfather of postmodernism’, an inspiration to thinkers such as Jacques Derrida, Michel…

 George Saintsbury (23 October 1845 – 28 January 1933), though a prolific and influential British literary critic in the late 1800s, is today perhaps best known as the author of a book on wine called Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920). According to…

Lionel Trilling (1905 – 1975) is one of the best known U.S. critics of the twentieth century. A Professor of Literature and Criticism at Columbia University from 1931 – 1975, his teachings focused primarily on the relationships between literature,…

“Longinus” is the name given to the unknown literary critic/author who wrote ‘On the Sublime’ an essay written around 100 CE that examines the work of more than 50 ancient authors. In the essay – of which only an extended fragment remains – Longinus…

Quantum Theatre was founded in Pittsburgh in 1990 by Karla Boos. Her goal was to create a company that incorporated world culture and international trends. Quantum has been a nurturing home for Boos’ evolution as an artist and for the hundreds of…