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This week it was astutely pointed out to me that I made a mistake in Coffee with Poe . In the novel about Poe's life, there is a sce...

I am happy to announce that Leo Tolstoy's 5 Greatest Novellas Annotated is now published in both ebook and print formats. The cover...

Edgar Allan Poe is America's forefather of Gothic literature and responsible for its most popular poem, "The Raven." I hav...

Morrissey. The former lead singer of The Smiths. I have to make a quick comment about the guy who called Robert Smith a whinebag and wh...

$0.00 "[A] lively and good natured work." -- Publisher's Weekly Reviewer To celebrate the launch of The Divine Dante...

Nearly 200 years after Poe penned "The Raven" it is still one of America's most popular poems. Personally I like his "...

Back in 2009 I edited the 20 greatest short stories of Tolstoy anthology, which included thousands of annotations of difficult terms and...

Poe was a connoisseur of the supernatural. As the author of Coffee with Poe: A Novel of Edgar Allan Poe's Life , I am sometimes aske...

To me, at least in his later years, Franz Kafka was our whiny man of literature. This is never so true as when he berated his family duri...