Poe's Day Off
Celebrate Poe
English - August 04, 2023 06:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsEducation History poe edgar allan literature history horror terror richmond virginia baltimore Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In “Poe’s Day Off,” the writer discusses what he enjoys when he is NOT writing - the stuff that “clears his head.” Through ChatGPT, the character of Edgar Allan Poe comments on his wife Virginia, the benefits of a good stroll, and authors of his era, as well as such future writers as Stephen King.
00:00 Intro
00:49 Poe on his “day off”
03:35 Joys of reading
04:43 Chess, cryptography, cosmology, and cats
09:07 American writers
10:40 Walt Whitman
12:20 Recent writers
17:48 Walking
21:26 Life near Fordham
28:58 Sources
29:14 Outro