Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks delights in the allure of Martha's Vineyard's off-season
Far from her Northern roots, the best-selling novelist discovers a new sense of home amid rolling hills and Thoroughbred farms
Other towns get more attention says novelist Julia Alvarez, but this is a place where things get done
Celebrated poet Mark Doty succumbs to Houston's humid charms
He arrived unsure of what to expect—but the prolific author quickly embraced Seattle's energizing diversity
Why do New Yorkers seem rude? A noted critic and essayist has a few ideas
Claire Messud, the best-selling author of The Emperor's Children, discovers the grown-up pleasures of her adolescent playground
Between medieval and modern, Oxford seeks equilibrium
The acclaimed novelist probes our yearning for a fixed address
Like the four generations of Angelenos who preceded her, the best-selling author likes to get around
The author traces some abiding infatuations—and old antagonisms—to his seaside boyhood home
Atlantans regard summer—and the overheated tourists it spawns—woefully
Thirty-five years after "defecting" to the Barbary Coast, the bestselling novelist still loves his city by the bay
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