On the literary trail in Scotland
Nice short piece about a book lover's visit to "literary Scotland".
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-scotland-20130901,0,7016700.story?page=1
The Los Angeles Times
On the literary trail in Scotland
From the Wigtown area's many book shops to the Edinburgh of Walter Scott, Robert Burns and Muriel Spark, Scotland is prime territory for the written word.
By Kari Howard
September 1, 2013
(short excerpt)
I had lived in Scotland when I was young and had been back several times since, but on this trip in June, I wanted to try a new area — Galloway — and a new theme — literary Scotland.
For someone seriously bookish (you know, the kind who collects old Penguin paperbacks and judges vintage books by their covers), the idea of a town dedicated to secondhand books was thrilling.
And Wigtown didn't disappoint.
The Book Shop was my favorite spot in town. Row upon row of Penguins. Higgledy-piggledy rooms, chandeliers, fireplaces and writerly things etched on the walls ("Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hands." Ezra Pound. Or, if you want to go another way, "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Einstein.)
