A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems
Remembering the Queer Modernist Poet on Her Sesquicentennial
February 5, 2024
By Ed Simon
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Ed Simon
Ed Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University, a staff writer for Lit Hub, and the editor of Belt Magazine. His most recent book is Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain, the first comprehensive, popular account of that subject.
In Praise of the Tangible Sacredness of the Printed Word
How Physical Copies of Shakespeare's First Folio Cemented the Bard's Legacy
Too Good To Be True: How Angels Continue to Inspire
Ed Simon Considers the Cultural Legacy of These Heavenly Archetypes
On Drinking, the Devil, and Paradise Lost
Ed Simon Searches for Milton's Grave While Getting Blackout Drunk in Pubs
Baroque, Purple, and Beautiful: In Praise of the Long, Complicated Sentence
Ed Simon Asks Us to Reconsider Our Definitions of Good Style
A History of Demonology is a History of the World
Ed Simon Offers a Demonic Poetics
To Write a History of Pittsburgh is to Write a History of America
Ed Simon on the Paris of Appalachia
9 Murderous Tyrants Who Were Also Failed Writers (and One OK Poet)
A Syllabus of Authoritarians Who Thought They Might Be Artists
11 Legendary Literary Hoaxes
From Fake Irish Poets to the Genius of JT Leroy
10 Classics of Campaign Literature
American Politics Has Always Been a Contact Sport
Beyond Shakespeare: A Reading List
Plenty to Read in One of the Greatest Literary Moments in History
What Was Shakespeare’s Central Philosophy?
Life, like theater, is fundamentally a fiction
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