Litnav

Where do you want to go to today?

LitNav offers a new way of reading the city. Choose a city – anywhere in the world – and be transported there by its fiction. Traverse its precincts. Map your way through its quarters or arrondissements. LitNav navigates as it narrates. With it, you can travel by train, tram, metro, bus or indeed on foot, experiencing each new landscape through the eyes of a fictional character.

Make your commute a journey of discovery!

Designed with the commuter in mind, LitNav enables you to escape the tedium of your everyday, real-life journey and take an alternative route instead – a more scenic, imaginary one down the streets and boulevards of a faraway city. Choose a story according to the location you wish to visit, or the length of time you have to spare, and the 'Download & Listen' function will lead you across an interactive map of that city accompanied by an audio reading. Or click 'Read' for the text version, but feel free to click on the drop pins to learn more about the city you're visiting.

Litnav can find the perfect story to accompany your commute, according to journey-length, genre, location, and mode of transport. With stories by internationally renowned authors set in 37 cities, across five continents, there’s something to capture the imagination of even the most intrepid readers.

Listen to a story while watching it unfold on the ‘map’ feature, or read with Litnav’s easy-on-the-eye eBook format. Each featured city has its own informative ‘key points of interest’ available along the way.

Added features include bookmarks, 'my downloads', and social media sharing.

Featured cities:

Alexandria

Athens

Baghdad

Barcelona

Beijing

Belgrade

Berlin

Bern

Blackpool

Bremen

Brussels

Cambridge

Dubai

Durham

Gdansk

Hong Kong

Istanbul

Leeds

Liverpool

London

Manchester

Naples

New York

Newcastle

Sean O'Brien

Oxford

Paris

Reykjavik

Riga

Riyadh

Salford

Sarajevo

Shenyang

Södertälje

Southport

Venice

Zagreb

Michelle Green

Zurich

Featured authors:

Eman Abdelhamid

Martyn Bedford

Hassan Blasim

Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson

David Constantine

Diao Dou

Arnon Grunberg

Paweł Huelle

Michael Jecks

Zoe Lambert

Alison MacLeod

Amanda Michalopoulou

Yousef al-Mohaimeed

Margaret Murphy

Sean O'Brien

Claudia Parman

Valeria Parrella

Koen Peeters

Christine Poulson

Fadwa al-Qasem

Francesc Serés

Ho Sin Tung

Jean Sprackland

Jana Šrámková

Roman Simić Bodrožić

Mirja Unge

Liz Williams

Xu Zechen

Inga Žolude

Devised by Comma Press and Literature Across Frontiers, and developed by Toru Interactive, LitNav brings together the fruits of the LAF's 'Tramlines' project and the best of Comma's 'Reading the City' commissions. Find out more at www.litnav.com

Your commute just got interesting.

- The Skinny

"Multifaceted, multisensory... a very cool app, very deep."

- App Vader

"A beautifully intuitive app."

- Transfiction

"Downloading LitNav means you can see the city through the eyes of fictitious characters, take imaginary journeys through literature, or experience an alternative view of familiar streets."

- Feature in The National

A genuinely progressive and exciting little app that just might point the way towards somewhere new that none of us would otherwise have thought to venture.

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