The Havana swimming pool where Ava Gardner swam nude and Ernest Hemingway spied on her is just one of the stops of interest in Victoria Brooks' second travel guide, Literary Trips (Sandhill $29.95). With a foreword by Paul Bowles, this anthology visits the haunts of famous writers around the world such as the preserved mansion on the outskirts of Havana where Hemingway entertained the Hollywood elite. Brooks wrote three of the 23 chapters-those on Bowles (Tangiers), Hemingway and Ian Fleming & Noel Coward (Jamaica). The series editor is novelist and critic M.R. Carroll. There are practical travel tips, some good photos and para-literary amusements such as D.H. Lawrence's recipe for dandelion wine. 0-9686137-0-5

[BCBW SPRING 2000]