Our spring 2015, coast-to-coast extravaganza to celebrated the publication of A PASSION FOR PARIS: Romanticism and Romance in the City of Light, starts on April…
photos courtesy Alison Harris A couple of jpegs of Le Figaro. They show “the best-loved most widely read writers” in France. Guess who…
George Sand was the "Great Woman" of the Romantic Age, according to Victor Hugo. If anyone could make that claim it was Hugo. Successful,…
Blame Nadar: his noir—noir et blanc I should say—influence helped lure me to Paris way back when. I wanted to take up residence in…
This is the first in an occasional series of sample excerpts from Food Wine Rome the app. Rome, the best food city in Italy?…
800×600 Paris to the Pyrenees, From a Traveler’s Notebooks, Part 16: Vercingetorix at the strange local history museum in Saint Pere sous Vezelay…
To mark the May 2014 release of the paperback version of Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way of Saint…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 5 To Vezelay from Sermizelles (not a disease) These blog posts are taken directly from…
Paris to the Pyrenees: From a Traveler’s Notebooks, post 2 Paris Prelude cont.: Rue St Jacques These blog…
Please come to the latest event to mark the publication of my travel adventure-memoir, Paris to the Pyrenees: A Skeptic Pilgrim Walks the Way…
We’re still on book tour for Paris to the Pyrenees, just arrived in the Bay Area, where it’s scorching hot in more ways than one.…
Andrew Riggsby, Professor of Classics and Art History at The University of Texas, Austin is an expert on Rome and Roman history (among the…
