Poe, Pandemic, and Underlying Conditions
To read Edgar Allan Poe in the time of pandemic, we need to appreciate a very different aspect of his perspective—not that of a mimetic artist but of the political economist.
Timothy Scherman
Timothy Scherman is currently Chair of the English Department at Northeastern Illinois University and President of the Elizabeth Oakes Smith Society. His essays on American literary and cultural history, postmodernism, and literary theory have appeared in journals such as Arizona Quarterly, Studies in 20th Century Fiction, and Paideuma. He is currently working on several projects, including a film, on the life and work of Elizabeth Oakes Smith.
Tom Waits: Eluding the Authorities
However many smokes he’s inhaled since childhood, Waits' trademark growl is a choice -- his first step to direct listeners' attention to the work of musical performance.