The fall of the House of Poe
While the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum has not actually fallen, it is certainly facing some hard times. Poe’s historic home in Baltimore has been vandalized in the past… Read more »
FRIDAY SOMETHING-OR-OTHER-TO-DO-WITH-BOOKS MUSIC VIDEO: Phil Ochs
Phil Ochs, folkie, counter-culture icon, whinnying witty crooner and occasional madcap drunkard, penned a prodigious amount of songs — many of them alliterative — during the 1960s and early 70s.… Read more »
Reasons to memorize a whatchamacallit
As reported earlier on MobyLives, British education secretary, Michael Gove, has brought forward a new national curriculum—one that includes the mandatory learning of a foreign language as early as seven… 1 / Read more »
VIDEO: Jean-Christophe Valtat discusses Jules Verne at the Watch City Steampunk Festival
Aurorarama author Jean-Christophe Valtat was a guest of honor at not one but two steampunk festivals over the last nine days. Jules Verne would be so jealous. Over the next… Read more »
Tradition of drinking to celebrate the life of writer who died after collapsing in a bar comes to sad end
It’s one of the longest lasting vigils in literary history, and it’s about to end: Organizers have announced that this year’s vigil at the gravesite of Edgar Allan Poe on… 4 / Read more »
Lenore Hart shows how not to respond to plagiarism charges
In the face of overwhelming evidence, novelist Lenore Hart has vociferously denied charges that she plagiarized large parts of her historical novel about Edgar Allan Poe’s wife, The Raven’s Bride… 1 / Read more »
Another stupefyingly ballsy case of plagiarism elicits calls for another book to be withdrawn
Spy novelist Jeremy Duns has been showing up on lots of blogs lately — including ours — for his fascinating posts about plagiarist QR Markham/Quentin Rowan. Of course, as he… 1 / Read more »