Tripod Literatour

Literatour

Literatour Logo If you've ever put down a book or walked away from a movie with the travel bug, then you know what a Literatour is. It's following a hero (or a sleazebag) through a city, or a country; visiting the same bars, fishing in the same streams, and chasing the same dream (or escaped convict). But literature and film are not always reliable travel guides, which is why we bring you Tripod's Literatour. Be it San Francisco, New York, Spain, France or Casablanca, Tripod has the practical know-how for the most impractical of vacations.
Take the Tripod Literatour, then choose your own Literatour in our special survey -- tell us the books and movies that have inspired your travels.

October 17, 1996: Dirty Harry's Guide to the Underbelly of San Francisco.
For the flip side of Seventies San Francisco, read the review of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of The City," where the residents of 28 Barbary Street take city-wide adventures and local trips, in a decade where everyone said Yes and no one spoke of AIDS.

October 3, 1996: Woody's Manhattan on the Cheap, from the deli to the opera.
For a taste of the New York of Woody's youth (a far cry from the swinging Village of his early career and his current digs in the Upper West Side), read our review of The WPA Guide to New York City. First published in 1939 (Allen was born in 1935), this book was assembled by the Federal Writer's Project (part of the Works Progress Administration created by FDR's New Deal).

September 26, 1996: Escape from Casablanca and let Bogart and Bergman be your tour guides.
If you can't get enough of North Africa, check out Tripod's review of Paul Bowles' Collected Stories. Bowles takes you across North Africa, through deserts and caves; where old ladies swallow scorpions, dogs carry demons, and six words can cause a man to slip into fissures of time.

September 19, 1996: Hemingway's Literatour is a decadent trip through France and Spain according to "The Sun Also Rises."
To get in the mood for the classic Hemingway Pyrenees fishing trip, read Tripod's interview with James Prosek, author of "Trout: An Illustrated History." 21-year-old Prosek has been heralded as "a fair bid to become the Audubon of the fishing world. And he probably knows a little more about flyfishing than Hemingway.

Craig Boreth is the author of "Run With the Bulls: The Adventurer's Guide to Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises." Visit his Web site for more information.
Illustration by Federico Jordan, a freelance illustrator based in Mexico.
© 1996 Tripod, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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	October 17, 1996: Dirty Harry's Guide to the Underbelly of San Francisco. For the flip side of Seventies San Francisco, read the review of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of The City," where the residents of 28 Barbary Street take city-wide adventures and local trips, in a decade where everyone said Yes and no one spoke of AIDS.
	October 3, 1996: Woody's Manhattan on the Cheap, from the deli to the opera. For a taste of the New York of Woody's youth (a far cry from the swinging Village of his early career and his current digs in the Upper West Side), read our review of The WPA Guide to New York City. First published in 1939 (Allen was born in 1935), this book was assembled by the Federal Writer's Project (part of the Works Progress Administration created by FDR's New Deal).
	September 26, 1996: Escape from Casablanca and let Bogart and Bergman be your tour guides. If you can't get enough of North Africa, check out Tripod's review of Paul Bowles' Collected Stories. Bowles takes you across North Africa, through deserts and caves; where old ladies swallow scorpions, dogs carry demons, and six words can cause a man to slip into fissures of time.
	September 19, 1996: Hemingway's Literatour is a decadent trip through France and Spain according to "The Sun Also Rises." To get in the mood for the classic Hemingway Pyrenees fishing trip, read Tripod's interview with James Prosek, author of "Trout: An Illustrated History." 21-year-old Prosek has been heralded as "a fair bid to become the Audubon of the fishing world. And he probably knows a little more about flyfishing than Hemingway.