Armchair Travel
Literary gadfly Stephen Hartshorne writes about books that he finds at flea markets and rummage sales.
  • About Stephen Hartshorne
December 14, 2017

Cousin Bunny Goes Out With a Bang

I really became immersed in The Sixties, the last volume of Edmund Wilson’s journals. There was a lot of interesting stuff about our family, conversations with my grandmother, who was his first cousin, and her brother Sandy who was his …

December 5, 2017

Little Girl Treasures

I was looking through my mother’s scrapbooks and correspondence because one of her close friends recently passed away and I was looking for a letter she wrote to my mom when they were little girls.

My mom saved everything — …

John Mortimer with Leo Kern, who played Rumpole in the television series
November 16, 2017

Rumpole’s Nose

For second hand book lovers, the League of Women Voters Book Sale in Amherst is a real mother lode. I picked up some Lindsey Davis mysteries (set in ancient Rome), a couple of Elmore Leonard books, a few Robert B. …

October 25, 2017

Now That I Was Dead, What Was My Future?

I’ve been having great fun reading The Sixties, the last volume of Edmund Wilson’s journals. They’re more accessible (for me) than many of his other writings, and I’ve learned a lot about many notable literary figures, and even my own …

October 3, 2017

One Curmudgeon to Another

I’ve always had trouble understanding the works of my grandmother’s cousin, Edmund Wilson, but I have continued to labor away, largely as a point of family pride. Axel’s Castle and To the Finland Station receive high praise from people smarter …

August 9, 2017

Black Elk Meets Queen Victoria

I’ve been reading Black Elk Speaks, transcribed by John G. Neihardt, the autobiography of a Sioux warrior and medicine man, a cousin of Crazy Horse who was present at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Wounded Knee Massacre.…

August 3, 2017

In Life, As In Tennis, Love Means Nothing

In my last entry about Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, a novel about the Old West, I made the observation that love and romance make up a big part of the book’s exploration of human nature.

Women were rather scarce …

July 31, 2017

Lonesome Dove

As I mentioned before, I was laid up for a week or so with gout, something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. It’s like having a broken leg only worse, because it hurts even when you hold still. Anyway, …

«< 2 3 4 5 6 >»

Search Armchair Travel

Brought to you by…

Armchair Travel Archives

GoNOMAD Blogs

  • GoNOMAD Travel Website
  • Max Hartshorne's Readuponit
  • Stephen Hartshorne`s Armchair Travel
  • Mridula`s Travel Tales from India
  • Paul Shoul`s Round World Photo
  • Kent E St. John's Be Our Guest
  • Sony Stark`s PilotGirl Travel Blog
  • Travel News Notes - Daily Travel Articles
  • GoNOMAD's Travel Reader Blog
  • Esha Samajpati's Miles to Go Blog
  • GoNOMAD's Travel Reader
  • Will McGough's Wake and Wander
  • Kate Hartshorne's Running in Circles

The Latest from GoNOMAD

Loading RSS Feed

↑

© Armchair Travel 2019