They were young, educated, and both virgins on this, their wedding night, and they lived in a time when a conversation about sexual difficulties was…
anna30/07/2021
by Athanasios Dimakis The situational irony of the New York Hotel Lotus in “Transients in Arcadia” (originally published on July 17, 1904, in the New…
anna01/07/2021
by Chryssa Marinou When the door was at last blessedly closed upon the narrow room whose first statements miscarried, lost in the discovery that even…
anna14/06/2021
By Athanasios Dimakis In his exploration of Italian male sexuality in art, motion pictures, and music through the lens of the antithetical pairing of realism…
anna22/04/2021
By Athanasios Dimakis Henry Miller’s 1941 The Colossus of Maroussi, an impressionist travelogue that has become a classic in travel literature, features some scant hotel…
anna12/04/2021
By Athanasios Dimakis William Plomer, the South African/British poet, novelist, and editor, wrote some of his poetry under the pseudonym Robert Pagan. This is suggested…
anna04/04/2021
By Chryssa Marinou Mark Twain, “America’s premier traveling spokesperson,” boarded the Quaker City in 1967 to enjoy “the Quaker City Pleasure Excursion, a highly publicized…
anna29/03/2021
BRITISH HOTEL. Mrs. Mary Seacole (Late of Kingston, Jamaica), Respectfully announces to her former kind friends, and to the Officers of the Army and Navy…
anna19/03/2021
By Chryssa Marinou Elizabeth Bowen’s 1923 short story entitled “Salon des Dames” offers a view of the hotel space in the aftermath of World War…
anna13/02/2021
