“The present is more and more the day of the hotel.”
Henry James, The American Scene 1907
Hotels in History
The project, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, is based at the Tourism History Working Group and Centre for Scottish Studies of the University of Guelph.
Partisan Hotel
Hotel is a bi-annual magazine for new approaches to fiction, non fiction, and poetry (Paper Hotel Series).
Historic Hotels of America
The official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation for recognizing and celebrating the finest Historic Hotels.
War Hotels
Documentary series exploring the stories of iconic hotels associated with recent urban warfare.
The Guardian, Beirut’s Bullet-Riddled Holiday Inn
A history of cities in 50 buildings, day 28.
Middle East Eye, War, Riots, Torture: The Luxury Hotels that Shaped the Middle East
Hotels playing a key role in the region’s history.
The New Yorker, When the Barbizon Gave Women Rooms of Their Own
The story of New York City’s most famous women-only hotel.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/03/08/when-the-barbizon-gave-women-rooms-of-their-own
Literary Hub, How the Barbizon Gave Sylvia Plath and Joan Didion Freedom and Creative Autonomy
Joan Didion and Sylvia Plath at New York’s Women’s-Only Hotel.
https://lithub.com/how-the-barbizon-gave-sylvia-plath-and-joan-didion-freedom-and-creative-autonomy/
National Geographic: History and Culture, The lost age of women-only hotels
“Moral homes” and glamorous post-war residences for American women.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/lost-age-women-only-hotels
Dorothy Parker Society, Dorothy Parker and the Algonquin in New York City
The Algonquin Hotel functioning as the headquarters for all fans of Parker.
https://dorothyparker.com/dorothy-parker-haunts/the-algonquin-hotel
Weimar Berlin, Hotel Adlon
Berlin life and the Grand Hotel.
http://www.weimarberlin.com/2018/03/hotel-adlon.html
The Guardian, Bohemian rhapsody: inside New York’s Chelsea Hotel
Chelsea Hotel cultural icons and controversial renovations.
Granta, The Chelsea Affect
Arthur Miller’s 1960 New York hotel piece.
https://granta.com/the-chelsea-affect/
The New York Times, New York’s Legendary Literary Hangouts: Chelsea Hotel and The Algonquin Hotel
Hotels were writers gathered in NYC.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/08/26/books/writers-favorite-places-new-york.html
The New York Times, 50 Years Ago, Truman Capote Hosted the Best Party Ever
Truman Capote’s lavish masquerade (The “Black & White Ball”)at the grand ballroom of New York’s Plaza Hotel.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/fashion/black-and-white-ball-anniversary-truman-capote.html
Tate, Sophie Calle, The Hotel: Room 28, Room 47, (1981)
Calle’s hotel diary diptychs.
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/calle-the-hotel-room-28-p78301
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/calle-the-hotel-room-47-p78300
The New Yorker, Sophie Calle and the Art of Leaving a Trace
Organized by room number, Sophie Calle’s “The Hotel” gathers together photographic documentation and observation.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/sophie-calle-and-the-art-of-leaving-a-trace
The New York Times Style Magazine, A Hotel Room of One’s Own
Vladimir Nabokov in his suite at the Montreux Palace hotel in Switzerland
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/02/t-magazine/a-hotel-room-of-ones-own.html
The Paris Review, Maya Angelou, The Art of Fiction No. 119
“I have kept a hotel room in every town I’ve ever lived in”.
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2279/the-art-of-fiction-no-119-maya-angelou
The Guardian, The Top 10 Hotel Novels
The magnetism of hotels from Robert Bloch’s Psycho to Chekhov’s Lady with the Dog.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/aug/13/top-10-hotel-novels-mark-watson
The New York Times, The Hotel Historian Is at Your Service
On the increasing popularity of hotel historians in high-end hotels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/07/travel/hotel-history.html
