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I am Providence: Lovecraft’s New England

August 20, 2014

As cosmic as H. P. Lovecraft’s thoughts often were, New England and his home city of Providence, Rhode Island influenced his fiction just as much as his imagination.

Orange is the New Black: A Supplementary Reading List

By Michelle King

August 19, 2014

Writing by the real Piper, Larry, Alex and more.

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Eat Prey Drug: Summerland

Escaping a catastrophic blizzard to take peyote in the Arizona desert, Paul Kwiatkowski concludes his investigation into alternate perceptions of consciousness.

The Biggest Little-Known Influence on H. P. Lovecraft

M. R. James was an English author, scholar and inspiration to Lovecraft, though the world may have forgotten it.

The Sun Don't Shine on a Moonshine Still

Get a bleary-eyed view of moonshining from a modern day bootlegger.