Contemporary writers explore the homes and haunts of 22 famous writers in Literary Trips Volume 2 (Greatest Escapes $29.95). The managing editor and series creator is West Vancouver's Victoria Brooks, herself the author of a newly self-published first novel set in Vietnam, Red Dream (Greatest Escapes $22.95), hyped as 'steamy and sexy.' Text editor for the travel series is Michael Carroll of Beach Holme Books. The second volume superior packaging and photos in comparison to the first, but the concept is the same. Brian Payton recollects Thoreau's cabin, or at least a facsimile of it. Grant Buday finds Raymond Carver's plot at Oceanview Cemetery in Port Angeles... We await accounts of pilgrimages to Jane Rule's neighbourhood pool, Roderick Haig-Brown's Above Tide and Jack Hodgins' exotic Merville roots in some far distant volume. Literary Trips 0-9686137-1-3; Red Dream 0-9686137-2-1 -[BCBW AUTUMN 2002]