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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The age-old tradition of traveling through the American landscape is inextricably bound to the stories of those who have recorded them. For decades, adventure-seekers – many of them writers – have ...

Though classic novels such as Treasure Island and The Hobbit often provide a map of the fictional topography, most novels require us to rely on our imaginations. However, with Zest Book’s latest title ...

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 ...

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 ...