A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses

✍ Scribed by Anne Trubek

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 173
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.

Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter 1. The Irrational Allure of Writers’ Houses
Chapter 2. Trying to Find Whitman in Camden
Chapter 3. Never the Twain Shall Meet
Chapter 4. The Concord Pilgrimage
Chapter 5. Hemingway’s Breadcrumb Trail
Chapter 6. Not That Tom Wolfe
Chapter 7. Best-Laid Plans at Jack London State Historic Park
Chapter 8. The Compensation of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Chapter 9. Poe Houses and Arrested Decay
Chapter 10. At Home with Charles Chesnutt and Langston Hughes
American Writers’ Houses Open to the Public
Notes
Acknowledgments