Happy Days of the Dead
I think I’ve said in an earlier post how much I love the artwork of this holiday. Every year I swear I am going to decorate and every year I…
Poe’s Hoaxes, Pt. 2
Here’s my example for the writing assignment in the last post: Man named “Lucky” missing, possibly eaten by tiger By Frank N. Berry A former children’s TV and commercial star,…
Poe’s Hoaxes: “The Facts In the Case of M. Valdemar” Assignment
Poe invented or re-envisioned several genres including horror, detective, and science fiction (Poe possibly supplied Jules Verne the idea for all those hot air balloon fictions!). While not discussed as…
France was a long way off.
In a reading group I’m in, which may have two or four members, we are beginning Hemingway’s novels. His first, Torrents of Spring, is a parody of Sherwood Anderson’s Dark Laughter…
Symbolism Is Simple…Sort of: “The Black Cat” Assignment
Along with Poe’s “Black Cat,” I hope you are reading the How to Read Literature book. Foster does a great job breaking down a lot of the basics of the…
Edgar was an odd little boy–“Berenice” Assignment
This post is part of a summer reading assignment for my AP Literature and Composition classes. In this assignment, we will focus on antithesis, a rhetorical device Poe uses in…
Kilgore Was Here
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” (Introduction to Mother Night) “All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.”…
A Haiku and an Interview
In the midst of new baby, new house, new life, and new writing projects, I decided to enter a haiku contest for the Centennial National Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington,…
