Charles Dickens would recognize the curve of the river and the placement of the streets -- but he would be surprised to learn that his “Bleak House” is right across the street from something called ...

The website “Placing Literature” is a map-based, crowd sourced platform that locates literary scenes in real-life locations all around the world. Founded in 2013 by Andrew Bardin Williams, who was a ...

Go behind the scenes of a new site based in Google Maps that combines geography, technology, and literature into a crowdsourced map of real locations from novels. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda ...

The term "Renaissance Man" tends to be overused, but for E.T. Malone Jr. of Warrenton, N.C., it fits just fine. In the 1980s, Malone took over the old "Literary Lantern" column from the late Walter ...

Mashing up the places, characters and events of various works into one shared universe isn’t exactly a new idea. Philip José Farmer’s Wold Newton universe imagines that most of the great fictionalized ...

It’s always fun to visit the real life places you read about in books. There’s just something exciting about exploring the place the author had in mind while writing. Placing Literature is a fun tool ...

To celebrate the opening of its new location at East 82nd Street and Lexington Avenue, the eyewear company Warby Parker has released an Upper East Side Literary Map and Tour that pairs classic New ...

Just in time for the upcoming Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, The Times’ books staff has created an interactive map of Literary Los Angeles, a work in progress. We’ve gathered passages from more ...

A nub of 47 square miles, much of it punctuated by vertigo-inducing hills, most of it surrounded by ocean water - half of it the open, not-so-tranquil Pacific, the other half the calm, protected ...

A new Google Maps mashup is giving bookworms a sense of direction when it comes to picking out new reading material. Launched on 21 May by UK organisation Lovereading, the map plots 200 works of ...

If you'll excuse me, I now have plans for the next 14 hours thanks to Atlas Obscura's Guide to Literary Road Trips — an "obsessively detailed," annotated Google Map of the most epic U.S.-based road ...

San Francisco's status as one of the most vibrant literary cities in the world is celebrated in an online literary map that The Chronicle will launch Monday morning ...