Off the beaten page: the best trips for lit lovers, book clubs, and girls on getaways

The next chapter : taking reading from the living room into the world

Literary travel basics. Literary travel : lit, landscape, and laughs ; How to avoid a temperamental journey ; Short story : lit trips in your own backyard

Reading East to West. Boston : on land and sea ; Newport, Rhode Island ; postcards from the Gilded Age ; New York City : if I can make it there ; Charleston : a new look at the Old South ; Miami : beach reading ; Minneapolis and St. Paul : up to the lake ; Chicago : the tales of two architects ; Memphis : rollin' on the river ; New Orleans : where piety runs parallel with desire ; Boulder : breathless in Boulder ; Austin : buckaroos and bohemians : Santa Fe : the archbishop comes to life ; Seattle : wearing layers ; San Francisco : immigrants and iconoclasts, poets and seekers ; Santa Monica : sun and shadow

Appendix. Book festivals across the country ; Just one love : author societies ; Connecting to fellow readers.