Brendan Zietsch sends a Literary Postcard from Brazil's cultural cradle. 

Obscure, impoverished, difficult to get to for almost everyone in the field — it was certainly a strange place for a scientific conference. And though it’s in many ways a paradise, Natal scared me and nearly derailed my novel.

This is a literary postcard from Oxford, by Rebecca Slater.

Claire Rosslyn Wilson, on the beauty in the burning fires of Valencia, Spain

This is a Literary Cities postcard from Karratha, by Megan Hippler.  

This is a Literary Cities piece on Paris, by Donna Lu. 

This is a Literary Cities piece by Elizabeth Flux about Hong Kong. 

A Literary Cities piece on Dunedin, by Phoebe Paterson de Heer.

A Literary Cities piece on Lisbon, by Carlotta Eden.

A Literary Cities piece on Fremantle by Chloe Papas.

A Literary Cities piece on New Orleans, by Carlotta Eden.

Here are the things you already know about New Orleans: the carnivals, the beads, the masks, the Hurricanes, the beignets, the gumbo, the swamps, the broils, the sazeracs, the jazz, the bayous, the floods, the ghosts, the levees, the Voodoo.