Japan’s Edogawa Rampo (pronounced Edgar Allan Poe)
At Tin House, A.N. Devers makes the case for Hirai Taro, a Japanese writer who took a phonetic version of Edgar Allan Poe for his own pen name.
At Tin House, A.N. Devers makes the case for Hirai Taro, a Japanese writer who took a phonetic version of Edgar Allan Poe for his own pen name.
“Director: You’re ending this on a goddamn downer.” PEN America excerpts Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s play, Autobiography of a Terrorist.
Katherine Lanpher remembers writer Bill Holm, a “great big tree of a man” who died recently and in whose memory 600 gathered on Tuesday night.
For her second novel(-in-progress), Amanda Stern must, “once again, shadow and tag my own emotional hollows.” Here’s her playlist.