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...The new space will be on the third storey of the Upper East Side building that formerly housed Blum & Poe gallery, which now operates as Blum in Tribeca....
...His study, complete with its 19th-century dentist’s chair, reveals his taste for 19th-century authors – from Baudelaire to Edgar Allan Poe....
...A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley, Abacus £16.99/Knopf $28, 224 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...But Malloy makes a patchwork quilt of songs, musical genres and stories, stitching together fragments from Arabian Nights, Grimms’ fairy tales, Edgar Allen Poe and many others, the common thread being death...
...“The rain is dramatic, we love drama here,” said the actor Brad Pitt, who provided star wattage at the fair alongside Jodie Foster and Jane Fonda....
...There was Shakespeare galore; there was Edgar Allan Poe, George Eliot and TS Eliot; Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Gerard Manley Hopkins, for Christ’s sake, but no Smike, no Estella, no Jellabys, no Bumbles...
...Jane Owen is editor of FT House & Home. Her trip to Yale took place before the Himalayan earthquake....
...The vivid storytelling classics, the luscious riffs spun from a heavenly, hellish New York, kept coming, adding to his legend; “Rock & Roll” and “Sweet Jane”, because there was Romeo and Juliet in Reed as...
...The fair will be slightly smaller this year, having lost a number of its original exhibitors, including biggies Sadie Coles, L&M and Blum & Poe....
...It’s at night that the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future search out Scrooge in A Christmas Carol; and on “a midnight dreary” that Edgar Allan Poe’s narrator is visited in his poem “The Raven”....
...Only three come to mind: the “Inimitable”, the “Bard”, and “Jane”. And, as a literary celebrity, Dickens has the advantage over Shakespeare and Austen that we know so much more about him....
...I’m amazed by the welcome Miss Jane Marple receives from the relatives she descends on. Superficially, Aunt Jane appears to be the kind of old lady that HRT and the 1960s have made extinct....
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