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This blog serves the readers of Edgar Allan Poe as a source for information and discussion. It is designed to support the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) (GO HERE) BIG READ programming. The NEA's "Reader's Guide" to the stories and poems of Edgar Allan Poe is HERE.

The Vigo County Public Library of Terre Haute, Indiana serves as the home base of this BIG READ initiative. For a calendar of the BOOK DISCUSSIONS and EVENTS related to Poe and his work, visit the homepage of the library HERE.

From Libby, Montana in the north to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in the south, west to Carmel, California and east to Saco, Maine-- many communities across the country are participating in the BIG READ. However you found your way here, you are a reader and you are welcome. Please pass the word along to others about the READ POE – DISCUSS POE blog. The more readers who participate the livelier the discussion.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

The Great Bad Writer

The great bad writer
Kevin Jackson
  22nd February 2012  —  Issue 192

Self-indulgent, vulgar, borderline insane—Edgar Allan Poe was the most influential American author of the 19th century

GO HERE FOR FULL ARTICLEhttp://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2012/02/the-great-bad-writer-edgar-allan-poe-raven-cusack/
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