About this episode

The episode explores the reasons behind traveling to authors' birthplaces and the implications of such journeys.

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
• cultural significance
• literature

Keywords

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

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Baltimore, PEI, Waterford, MI

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