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Posts Tagged: Edgar Allen Poe
Poe’s Moby-Dick?
For the New York Review of Books, Marilynne Robinson considers the place of Edgar Allen Poe’s novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, within the author’s prolific career. In addition to comparing Pym to other maritime novels, including Moby-Dick, Robinson argues that labeling Poe as a writer of “horror” overlooks the range and depth of his work. He has […]
...moreCoauthor a Book with Charles Dickens, Sort of
Google is nixing their RSS reader in July, but at least we still have this fun demo of real-time collaborative Google docs. “See what it’s like to collaborate with famous storytellers,” says the blurb on the side of the page. “Admittedly,” it adds, “a few years past their prime.” Go ahead, start typing. Edgar Allen […]
...moreAnd In Some Perfumes Is There More Delight
You know what Ernest Hemingway looked like and what his writing sounded like—but what did he smell like? Inspired by a perfume on Etsy called “Dead Writers,” Book Riot’s Amanda Nelson imagines scents named after various canonical authors. Our favorites include Flannery O’Connor (“Church incense, soap, vanilla, ginger”) and Edgar Allen Poe (“Poppies, absinthe, sandalwood, […]
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It is as if a great house has fallen―sunk into the mire which seethes around the ancestral manor, amid an unrecognizable, Martian landscape. The narrator of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” has no name, no real structural substance beyond his vague association with this other guy, an old friend of his.
...moreRumpus Sound Takes: Ominous Ambience
Tasseomancy Ulalume (Turf Records) On the Tasseomancy song “Healthy Hands (will mourn you),” twins Sari and Romy Lightman repeat again and again the refrain, “All is lost.” The track is from their debut LP Ulalume, and the album – like the Edgar Allen Poe poem of the same title – embraces an elegiac tone, a […]
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