Steve Rachman, IAH 207 faculty, speaks about Edgar Allan Poe on NPR
E.A. Poe (1848)
After attending a conference on Poe studies in Nice (France) early this year, Professor Steve Rachman, faculty of record of IAH 207 (Literatures, Cultures and Identities), along with Professor J. Gerald Kennedy (Louisiana State U) and Susan E. Sweeney (College of the Holy Cross), talked in NPR Tom Ashbrook's On Point: Master of the macabre, Edgar Allan Poe, at 200.
"Edgar Allan Poe, master of the macabre, was born two hundred years ago [on January 19, 1809]. In the youth of the new country, he scared the daylights out of 19th-century Americans with his horror wrapped in gothic romance. [...] He was father of the detective story and the gory thriller."