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Friday, May 1, 2009
They hate scholars, ridicule of scholars would give them pleasure, it was sure to be a success - the tragic dream-world of Der Nister
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A month or two ago, I had not heard of David Bergelson. No, I had, because I had read about him as a victim of Stalin's final attempt to...
Friday, April 24, 2009
A strong hand had written, 'I hate Poe' - Daniel Hoffman's
Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe
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At some point in the middle of my two week Poe festival , I felt an anxious spasm - I really should have read Daniel Hoffman's Poe Poe P...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Edgar Allan Poe's annual short story productivity - many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore
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I'd had no idea, before plowing through the Library of America Poetry and Tales , how many comic stories Poe wrote. Of 68 tales and sket...
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Victor Hugo and the death penalty -
The Last Day of a Condemned Man
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Victor Hugo's The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) is a novella-length story, 67 pages in the edition I read, a first person account ...
Friday, September 21, 2007
"The Axe clanks down;
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a King's Life is shorn away. It is Monday the 21st of January 1793. He was aged Thirty-eight years four months and twenty-eight days....
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