In yesterday's USA Today, the book section of the paper rated the top ten literary cities. Can you guess?
Here they are in order:
Minneapolis
Seattle
St. Paul
Denver
Washington, DC
St. Louis
San Fran
Atlanta
Pittsburgh
Boston
Is your city on the list? I was a bit surprised by a couple of these, but some like San Fran and Boston were obvious to me. I read an article a few weeks ago that said San Fran was one of the fastest growing literary cities.
TGIF! What are your weekend plans? I'm revising CB and reading a new book that I got yesterday--Guerrilla PR. Next week, I'm going to review Donald Maass' The Breakout Novel, so stay tuned for that.
6 comments:
Hmmm...New York didn't make the list? That's interesting.
Weekend plans including writing as well. Since I have a nice 4-day weekend that requires no traveling. Gotta love the holidays!
How could they leave out Portland, Oregon -- home of Powell's Bookstore (the quirkiest and possibly largest independent bookstore) and the Wordstock Book Fair??
My city did not make the list. :( Maybe they should've put Minneapolis/St. Paul as one and given us an additional city? And, I'm like Emily Marshall--no New York?? Very interesting!
No kidding about NYC! I was really shocked. I'm excited, too, about the long weekend, Emily. :)
I agree about Oregon!
Barrie, yeah, they really could have combined those two. How sad that no southern cities (aside from Atlanta) made the list.
Hi Jessica,
I love your blog! I was wondering if you could send me the link to that usa today article. I can't seem to find it. I've been doing some travel writing of my own and am starting to do some research on literary travels.
thanks! Lacee
Hi, Lacee! I don't have a link to the article, sorry! I only saw it printed in the actual paper.
Good luck finding it! :)
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