What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
Some experiences of great art are electric, dramatic. I'm thinking of the effect on the viewer, or reader, of Van Gogh's swirling,...
Tuesday night’s Great Poe Debate at the Free Library of Philadelphia certainly lived up to its name. The event was front-page news in that day’s edition of The Philadelphia...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
When I was about eleven years old, I fell in love with the legends
of King Arthur, Robin Hood, and Sherlock Holmes. From King Arthur, I...
What piece of art changed your life? How did it affect you?
For better or worse, I became the writer that I became in considerable measure because of two literary monuments fortuitously...
A citywide Poe celebration was just announced for 2009, the 200th anniversary of the author's birth. The details are below, and here's a video, featuring John Astin, to get you in the mood....
What piece of art changed your life? And how did it affect you?
Barnett Newman’s Vir Heroicus Sublimis (1950-1951) changed how I think about novels, which is my life.
It is a huge canvas, 8’...
In today's New York Times, there's an article about Philadelphia laying claim to the remains of Edgar Allan Poe. Apparently, there's a scholar named Edward Pettit in the City of Brotherly Love who...
