Edgar Allen Poe
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The Most Overrated Writer in America March 19, 2025
There is a large contingent of people in America who occasionally read classic literature for fun. I debated a bit with my followers on Notes about the exact size of this contingent, and we decided it was probably somewhere between two and ten millio...
On 'Joker: Folie à Deux' and 'Megalopolis' March 03, 2025
When I was sixteen, in 1992, I wanted to be a novelist like Stephen King, only better. I wanted the literary prestige of Edgar Allen Poe. I had conceived of this idea for a novel: The River of Lost Time. It was about a deranged criminal who illogical...
