An Essential Decency: The Millions Interviews Michael Bourne
"A true addiction story is unreadable—it's just a person doing the same damn thing over and over and over."
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Is This Why Edgar Allan Poe Never Had Kids?
The Poes would be married for 11 years, but whether the marriage was consummated, immediately or later, has bedeviled scholars for over a century.
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Edgar Allan Poe: Self-Help Guru
Poe tells us that being a genius means attracting haters, “a set of homunculi, eager to grow notorious by the pertinacity of their yelpings,” but also that, crucially, not everyone who attracts haters is a genius.
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Poe’s ‘Eureka’ Is a Galaxy-Brained Space Opera for Our Times
You and I might also, and just as profitably, take in the crucial life lesson: If you’re going to have a nervous breakdown, make it a spectacular one, complete with gawking audience and baffled fans. Go big or go home.
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Twenty-Five Ways to Roast a Raven: The Spiciest Criticism of Edgar Allan Poe
“[Egdar Allan] Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hand on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.” —D.H. Lawrence
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Was Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ Inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe Story?
In “William Wilson,” the most autobiographical of his tales, Poe may have been portraying his own unspeakable boarding school experience.
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Take a Writer Like Him: My Complicated Love Affair with Kingsley Amis
As Amis knew, misogyny and rape don’t take place at some great remove from art and life.
That Amis remains a complex figure is fitting, full stop.
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Edgar Allan Poe Was a Broke-Ass Freelancer
For his entire oeuvre—all his fiction, poetry, criticism, lectures—Poe earned only about $6,200 in his lifetime, or approximately $191,087 adjusted for inflation.
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