After flirting with the thing after first spying it a few weeks ago, I finally broke down and picked up Daniel Hoffman’s 1972 biography Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe Poe. It is too weird not to be mine. Here is a good review of the book.
I spied but did not pick up this biography of JRR Tolkien, but its cover is utterly charming.
The Poe Poe etc. is something else. Here is a worse review of it. Maybe not a lot worse. I was reading a lot of Poe back then.
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Isn’t that the review I linked to? Maybe you meant to link to another review? Am confuse.
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Oh lordy, I meant to link to myself! I am bad at self-promotion.
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It’s a good review!
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Oh have you all read Houellebecq’s long essay on Lovecraft integrating his Poe influence? To read a biography of someone who loved him as H does is a treasure. And Poe is included.
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I read it years ago…I think McSweeney’s published it (?). I have it somewhere still.
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Ooooh, now I’ve gotta find myself a copy.
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