There is no other place quite like Brooklyn. Not only has it inspired and nurtured many native writers, it has had a profound impact on those passing through. The Brooklyn Reader features a rich diversity of writings -- short stories, poetry, essays,...
In her third literary Baedeker, Alice Leccese Powersâ€"editor of Italy in Mind and Ireland in Mindâ€"explores France through the senses and sensibilities of thirty-three British and American authors.
The food and the people, the culture and vi...
In her fourth literary travel companion, Alice Leccese Powers explores one of the most seductive regions of the world through more than two centuries of fiction, poetry, essays, letters, and memoirs by English-speaking visitors to northern Italy.
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