Thu. 01/19 - Edgar Allan Poe Wrote In His Books & You Should Too
A deep dive on marginalia. What is it, why should you do it, and how does it reveal the more joyful side of history’s most famous sadboy, Edgar Allan Poe? All that and more in this extended love letter to writing in books. Sponsor: ZocDoc, Links:...
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Show Notes
A deep dive on marginalia. What is it, why should you do it, and how does it reveal the more joyful side of history’s most famous sadboy, Edgar Allan Poe? All that and more in this extended love letter to writing in books.
Sponsor:
- ZocDoc, zocdoc.com/coolstuff
Links:
- Edgar Allan Poe on the Joy of Marginalia and What Handwriting Reveals about Character (The Marginalian)
- Marginalia by Edgar Allan Poe
- How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation (Literary Hub)
- Historical Figures who’d be outrageous online? (r/AskHistory)
- Drool over the personal bookplates of 18 famous writers. (Literary Hub)
- How Leaning into Marginalia Helped Me Accept the Loss of Control That Comes with Publication (Literary Hub)
- Please Report Your Bug Here by Josh Riedel
- Ryan Holiday's 3-Step System for Reading Like a Pro (Ryan Holiday, YouTube)
- Edgar Allan Poe Watches Too Much Tiktok (McSweeney’s)
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