Jaunted - Tag: Reading http://www.jaunted.com/ The Pop Culture Travel Guide en-us Copyright 2006 - SFO MEDIA 2008-12-02T04:34:57Z Jaunted Jaunted Jaunted http://www.jaunted.com/images/jauntedw.jpg http://www.jaunted.com/tag/Reading Forks: Fall Culture Travel: Take a Bite out of Rural Washington http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/9/22/16247/8996

It's that flavor you can't resist: Take the teenage girl in your household to Forks, Washington, home of the fictional vampires of Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series. Forks, a former logging town, is taking its place in the spotlight ahead of the big fall release of "Twilight," in which the new girl in town discovers that (spoiler!) one friend is a vampire and one is a werewolf.

To accommodate visitors to this Olympic Peninsula destination--picked by the author, who had never been there at the time, because its climate was so far from her Arizona house--locals have started offering impromptu tours and wry in-jokes like signs for fake blood drives.

While the Summit Entertainment film, out November 21 and starring Kristen Stewart (the teenage girl in "Into the Wild"), was not shot in Forks, a road trip to this misty metropolis may just give you the insuppressible urge to do a little reading. Just not while you're driving!

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· Visitors Flock to Timber Town for Twilight Magic [AP via Yahoo]
· HBO's "True Blood" Is For Suckers [Jaunted]

[Photo: wwworks]]]> egw 2008-09-22T16:45:32-05:00 Washington, DC: Fall into Reading at the National Book Festival http://www.jaunted.com/story/2008/9/22/1426/95341

The National Mall becomes an open-air library on Saturday for the National Book Festival, co-hosted by First Librarian Laura Bush. Get psyched for a full day of book shopping, signings and activities by checking out Library of Congress podcasts featuring authors from the fest.

After the click, our picks for a day on the Mall:]]> egw 2008-09-22T15:05:32-05:00 New Orleans: New Orleans Memories http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/9/2/16504/22790


  • "Letter from New Orleans," a moving reminiscence by Gridskipper editor Chris Mohney, who was born in the Metairie: "As I watch New Orleans physically and psychically disintegrate, I suddenly realize how much I love and miss it. No American city this large has ever died, and I don't believe New Orleans will, not really."

  • An interview with Rob Walker from last month. Walker's Letters from New Orleans sketches out "celebratory gunfire, rich people, religion, the riddle of race relations in our time, robots, fine dining, drunkenness, urban decay, debutantes, the nature of identity, Gennifer Flowers, the song 'St. James Infirmary,'" and other things that make the town what it is.

  • The Christian Science Monitor on New Orleans and its many literary ties

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·   Letter to New Orleans [Gridskipper]
·   Letters From New Orleans: An Interview with Rob Walker [Flak Magazine]
·   All booked up in New Orleans [CS Monitor, via Maud Newton]
·   Will New Orleans Survive? [Times-Picayune; page down to Tuesday, 5 p.m.]
·   American Red Cross [Donation page]]]> johnrambow 2005-09-02T16:50:04-05:00 Oxford: Faulkner's House Open to Public http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/7/14/145253/239
Just in time for Oprah's Summer of Faulkner, the house that the novelist lived in for decades, Rowan Oak, has been so carefully restored that you can almost smell the bourbon in the air.

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·   Reviving His Works, on Paper and Plaster [New York Times]
·   Rowan Oak [Official Web site]]]> johnrambow 2005-07-14T14:52:53-05:00 Austin: Kinky Does Austin http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/7/6/16912/78090

The Guardian has posted a little bit from The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic, Kinky Friedman's guide to Austin and its musical roots:

Sixth Street is frequented by the young and trendy. Fortunately for the rest of us, Sixth Street is also frequented by the old and the out of date (we prefer to call them retro), the rich and the famous, the exciting and the boring, the heroes and the scoundrels. You could find yourself pissing next to a Hollywood star, a rising politician, America's Most Wanted, or my future ex-wife. Be ready for anything.



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·   My honky tonk town [Guardian]
·   The Great Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic [Amazon link] ]]> johnrambow 2005-07-06T16:09:12-05:00 Maine's Bookish Types http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/6/30/163144/360 Who knew Maine had such a history with the bibliophiles?

CNN outlines a literary trip through the Pine Tree state with author laden stops in Portland (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), Bangor (Stephen King-yikes) and Moosehood Lake (Thoreau, but of course)...

Get to the bookstore and get on the road!

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·   Literary Maine: A Reader's Pilgrimage [CNN]
]]> sedona 2005-06-30T16:31:44-05:00 Well-Read Travelers: Part II http://www.jaunted.com/story/2005/6/21/194625/320 Sometimes it's too damn hot to get in a car or on a plane. If you'd rather hang out at home and travel vicariously this summer, check out the LA Times' guide to new books on travel that are guaranteed to be cheaper then a four-day excursion and work well with your new AC too.

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·   Some books to rev your get-up-and-go [LA Times]

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