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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JACKSON HOLE -- Jackson Hole Writers has launched the Wyoming Literary Map, a crowdsourced digital repository of literary contacts, organizations and resources created to foster a vibrant statewide ...