About this episode

The episode explores the motivations behind visiting authors' birthplaces and the implications of creating literary destinations.

Why do we drive thousands of miles just to touch the wooden beams of an author’s birthplace? From Poe’s Baltimore to PEI and Waywords’s own Waterford, MI, we consider what it takes to build a literary destination and how this works to undermine the very real need for we travelers to cross the threshold […]

People in this episode

Host: Steve Chisnell

Topics covered

• literary destinations
• author birthplaces
• travel
• literature
• cultural significance

Keywords

• literary tourism
• author birthplace
• Poe
• travel
• cultural significance

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Baltimore, PEI, Waterford, MI

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