Combining literary analysis with a practical introduction to interdisciplinary literary geography, Literary Geographies examines key elements of Colum McCann's 2009 novel, Let the Great World Spin. Hones examines concepts such as narrative space, literary and academic collaboration, and the geographies of creation, production, and reception.
"Sheila Hones's Literary Geographies is a book that will benefit both literary critics interested in spatiality and cultural geographers interested in literature. ... Exploring a wide range of topics that literary geography can deal with, Literary Geographies can be read as an attractive introduction to this interdisciplinary field." (Hiroyuki Inoue, Pacific and America Studies, Vol. 16, March, 2016)