Archive - The Traveller's Literary Supplicant

News: Consequence Forum Publishes My Irish-Literature Essay on Pádraic Ó Conaire

Audio and text versions available for all

May 16 •

January 2025

News: My Detective Story in New UK Anthology, & a Book Review

A small milestone reached for the future series

Jan 29 •

December 2024

Newspaper Columns and the Epistolary in Detective Grigoris

How to use textual artifacts to embellish literature

Dec 15, 2024 •

The Musicality of Detective Grigoris: Exploring a Song’s Heritage and Literary Life

How a Cretan folk song’s eternal revolt continues in my detective fiction

Dec 1, 2024 •

November 2024

Voltaire’s Unexpected Influence on My Detective Fiction

How I chanced upon a whimsical Enlightenment classic, of Persian origin

Nov 21, 2024 •

October 2024

Istanbul History and Houses: Discovering the Levantine Glavany Family

Ottoman cultural heritage, as revealed by an architect and historian

Oct 30, 2024 •

Edgar Allan Poe and the Horror of Dutch Painting

When detective-fiction work led to scholarly insight on “The Masque of the Red Death”

Oct 16, 2024 •

When Greek Café-Culture Haunts a Mystery (& another Detective Grigoris Anti-Excerpt)

Sometimes, it’s all about atmosphere, travel, and honoring what made the past special

Oct 2, 2024 •

September 2024

New Adventures around the First Detective Grigoris Novel

Current Status, an anti-excerpt, and future article topics you’ll love

Sep 17, 2024 •

August 2024

A Poem Inspired by Stoic Physics (1999)

An old classic, published for the first time

Aug 17, 2024 •

In Brief: a New Fiction Anthology, and My Work in Dream Literature

A collective achievement worth celebrating for Substack authors

Aug 2, 2024 •

July 2024

Book Review: Cardinal Bessarion’s Latin Library (Monfasani, 2012)

Inside one of the greatest personal libraries ever assembled

Jul 7, 2024 •

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