Earlier this month, after eighteen thousand people signed a petition, an insouciant street corner in Forest Hills, Queens was named after Third Wave Russian author, Sergei Dovlatov. Those who knew… Read more »

When images of the new statue of Edgar Allan Poe to be installed in central Boston later this year were circulated online last week, there was something awfully familiar about… Read more »

Yesterday, October 7th, marked the 164th anniversary of Edgar Allan Poe’s death — an event that is still shrouded in mystery. On September 28, 1849, Poe was found lying unconscious… Read more »

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts that is “designed to revitalize the role of literature in American culture and to encourage citizens to… Read more »

Last year was a tumultuous one for Edgar Allan Poe’s onetime home in Baltimore. The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum had its funding from the city cut off in… Read more »

Today is April Fools’ Day, so for the next 24 hours, be careful out there on the Internet. Every story you see should be read carefully, every headline cause for… Read more »

In order to show off its collaborative capabilities, Google Documents has created a demonstration where you can collaborate with famous (and long-dead) authors on a story. It’s actually a pretty… Read more »

While the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum has not actually fallen, it is certainly facing some hard times. Poe’s historic home in Baltimore has been vandalized in the past… Read more »

Phil Ochs, folkie, counter-culture icon, whinnying witty crooner and occasional madcap drunkard, penned a prodigious amount of songs — many of them alliterative — during the 1960s and early 70s.… Read more »

As reported earlier on MobyLives, British education secretary, Michael Gove, has brought forward a new national  curriculum—one that includes the mandatory learning of a foreign language as early as seven… 1 / Read more »