A Good Writer Is Hard To Find: The Search For Flannery O’Connor
by Linda McGovern To try and get more from a writer than what you see on the page, depends on the writer and their ability…
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The Strange Case Of The Jack Kerouac Estate
Jack Kerouac is known in the popular imagination as the harbinger of the Beat movement – a free-wheeling spirit who “hit the road” in search…
The Longfellow House
By Natalie Rothstein He was a young 30-year-old professor about to start his teaching career at Harvard. So it was that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow knocked…
Poe on Sullivan’s Island
On a chilly autumn day in the year of the new millennium, I head my car out of Charleston, South Carolina up the coast, across the river and marshes t…
Scholar, Athlete, and Artist: Edgar Allan Poe At University of Virginia
In 1826, Edgar Allan Poe attended the University of Virginia to receive the liberal education promised to him by his foster father, John Allan. Almost…
Edgar Allan Poe’s Richmond
The Poe Shrine is an open brick shelter, constructed of materials salvaged from the Southern Literary Messenger building where Poe worked as an editor…
Poe’s Philadelphia Experience
By the scene is a vacant old house in the center of a bustling city. A cold chill follows you in before you can even shut the heavy door. There are no…
Ernest Hemingway and Piggott, Arkansas
Piggott, Arkansas, is a town of just under 4000 residents. Piggott is an attractive town, with lovely homes, and beautiful scenery, but it is an out-o…
Jack London: The American Karl Marx
Called the "Boy Socialist: and the "American Karl Marx," Jack London succeeded so well as a writer under the capitalistic system that he could afford …
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
By Christina Lewis Margaret Mitchell admired people who had gumption, people who fought their way through hard times triumphantly and came out survivors. She said…