September 03, 2014
Most famous for The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux was also an accomplished — though now largely forgotten — journalist and short story writer.
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Most famous for The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux was also an accomplished — though now largely forgotten — journalist and short story writer.
Read MoreUruguayan fiction writer, poet and playwright Quiroga was a master of the bizarre but also an ancestor of the magical realists.
Read MoreHemingway, Joyce, Faulkner — history is supposedly littered with alcoholic authors, but the truth is that drinking doesn’t lead to better writing.
Read MoreSixty-one years ago today, during the summer of 1953, Plath was found after attempting suicide for the first time. And it was shaping up to be such a good year ….
Read MoreConsidering his revelry in poetry, sex and rebellion, you might assume that Charles Baudelaire was a man of the political left … but you’d be wrong.
Read MoreRecommended reading by Lovecraft’s friends, pen pals and fellow practitioners of the weird tale.
Read MoreWhether due to the circumstances of time or conspiracy of sibling rivalry, the childhood writings of Emily and Anne Bronte have disappeared.
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