Yeah, it's that time again -- for both my weekly column and for the Poe-mania that October always brings, increased this year because it's the 200th anniversary of his birth. As I've mentioned, I'll be at the Poe conference that's going on at UMass Amherst the end of the month, but details are a bit vague at present.October inevitably ends up being unofficial Poe month across the world as his dark tales get tied to the spooky Halloween season.
If he were still alive, Edgar would have turned 200 hundred in January, a nice round number for celebrations. I’m going to be part of a gathering at U-Mass Amherst focused on New England writers and artists and their relationship to the master of the macabre, but there are a wealth of possibilities out there...
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Tonight I head down to Bard for a talk on Blake, then dinner with Robert. We're off to the city tomorrow to stop by the Cloisters and see Leonard Cohen at Madison Square Garden. Should be fun! (Ironically, Marko is playing "No Fun" right now, hee hee!)
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In the Horror List's recent go-round about Best Series in Horror, I almost cited Aubrey Beardsley's series of etchings illustrating Poe's stories as the Best Series of that Sort...but there is so much lovely competition in that regard. Certainly one of the best, and one of the earliest best...
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