Literary travel, bookstores, trains, notebooks, and the stories cities leave behind
Booked & Boarded
A recurring literary travel series about books, transit, cafés, bookstores, and the quiet observations collected along the way. Part city diary, part reading journal, Booked & Boarded explores what it feels like to move slowly through a place.
Literary Guides
Thoughtful literary travel guides exploring through bookstores, cafés, neighbourhood walks, hidden corners, and slow itineraries for readers, writers, and curious travellers.
Literary Travel
A collection of essays, reflections, and destination stories exploring the spaces where books and travel intersect. From hidden bookstores and literary cities to notebooks filled on trains and afternoons spent reading in unfamiliar cafés, these pieces focus on the emotional texture of place rather than sightseeing alone.
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The Best Bookstores in the World
I’ve never trusted a city’s Google reviews as much as I trust its bookshops. A good one tells you almost everything you need to know about a place: what the locals are reading, what they’re arguing about, what kind of…
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5 Days in New York: A Literary Guide Through Round Tables, Reading Rooms and the Boroughs Between
New York doesn’t have one literary history so much as a stack of them, overlapping by neighbourhood and decade: the Algonquin wits of the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance a few subway stops north, the Beats drinking their way around Greenwich…
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Booked & Boarded: New York City — Brownstones, Bridges, and a Tree That Won’t Stop Growing
The Promenade is busy before nine, joggers and dog walkers and one man doing tai chi facing the harbor, unbothered by the container ships crossing behind him. Brooklyn Heights does this specific thing where the brownstones stand shoulder to shoulder…
