The term "Renaissance Man" tends to be overused, but for E.T. Malone Jr. of Warrenton, N.C., it fits just fine. In the 1980s, Malone took over the old "Literary Lantern" column from the late Walter ...

Charles Dickens would recognize the curve of the river and the placement of the streets -- but he would be surprised to learn that his “Bleak House” is right across the street from something called ...

The website “Placing Literature” is a map-based, crowd sourced platform that locates literary scenes in real-life locations all around the world. Founded in 2013 by Andrew Bardin Williams, who was a ...

A recently launched interactive literary mapping project aims high: Placing Literature ‘s founders hope to harness “the power of crowdsourcing to create respected reference material for future ...

Go behind the scenes of a new site based in Google Maps that combines geography, technology, and literature into a crowdsourced map of real locations from novels. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda ...

Around the World in 80 Days Andrew DeGraff/Zest Books The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, part 1 Andrew DeGraff/Zest Books Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, part 1 Andrew ...

In a new exhibition, the long, difficult history of literary maps is explored, from James Joyce to Raymond Chandler From efforts to map Odysseus’s journey to Borges’s commentary on map-making in On ...

A nub of 47 square miles, much of it punctuated by vertigo-inducing hills, most of it surrounded by ocean water - half of it the open, not-so-tranquil Pacific, the other half the calm, protected ...

Here's an offbeat web site: Literature Map. Like "What Should I Read Next", Literature Map shows how authors you like relate to authors whom you might want to read. The way it goes about this is ...