It's high tide, folks, and we're taking this opportunity to float our little craft upcountry. For the first 10 days or so, we'll be obliged to stow the laptop to keep it safe from the salt air. Weather permitting, we'll post by the stars for the balance of the month, in accord with the sea's ungoverned rhythms.

Before we go, some highlights from Littoral's first five months:

→ Intensity of Illusion: a conversation with Booker Prize winner Barry Unsworth, who will deliver the keynote address at our forthcoming Seminar, Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth.

→ Podcasts:
    •Junot Díaz reading and discussing his Pulitzer Prize-winning debut novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.
    •John Ashbery's mini-lecture on Elizabeth Bishop.
    •Francisco Goldman's lecture on José Martí's years in New York.

→ Harry Mathews's Epithalamium for Judith Kazantzis and Irving Weinman.

→ The Waddell Street fisticuffs of Wallace Stevens and Ernest Hemingway.

→ A Day at the Beach with Key West's literati, 1984.

And...

→ All you need to know about our 27th annual Seminar, Historical Fiction and the Search for Truth.

→ Scholarships for writers, teachers, and librarians.

→ Register for the Seminar, this January in Key West, FL.

The image above shows Ernest Hemingway fishing near Key West in 1928. It comes from the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.