Author Archives: kara

About kara

We know our letters just fine, and we know our numbers to a certain point, but books were always the realm of four-eyed poindexters with bowler hats and cravats. That’s why it pleases us so that America’s proud illiterates are finally stepping up and pushing back against the crushing tide of education that threatens to swallow us all into its gaping maw of checked facts. Champions of the Ignorantiat will not like it here.

The House Where Poe Didn’t Write The Raven

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kara

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief”. Wrote Edgar Alan Poe, in The Black Cat , which he penned while living in this odious row house. My … Continue reading →

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The Cellar of The House Where Poe Didn’t Write The Raven

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kara

In The Black Cat, the psychotic narrator slaughters his wife with an axe after she stops him from killing the phantasm of a cat he feels is tormenting him. He conceals her body in a brick wall in the cellar. … Continue reading →

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The Bar Where Booze Wrote The Gift of The Magi

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kara

Established in 1864, Pete’s Tavern claims to be the oldest, continuously operating bar in NYC (during prohibition, Pete’s was disguised as a flower shop!). Pete’s also boasts being the pub where O. Henry (the pen name of William Sydney Porter), … Continue reading →

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The House of Lanny Budd

Posted on February 16, 2010 by kara

I happened upon this Spanish Colonial Revival home in the Los Angeles suburb of Monrovia, a few miles from my neighborhood in Eagle Rock. It was the home to Upton Sinclair between the years of 1942 and 1966, and is … Continue reading →

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The Faux House of a Fake Detective

Posted on February 7, 2010 by kara

The quintessential “faux literary home” is that of fictional super sleuth, Sherlock Holmes: The Sherlock Holmes Museum of Baker Street. Here at 221b Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson – but not Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – “lived” from … Continue reading →

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Posted on January 23, 2010 by kara

I happened upon this Spanish Colonial Revival home in the Los Angeles suburb of Monrovia, a few miles from my neighborhood in Eagle Rock. It was the home to Upton Sinclair between the years of 1942 and 1966, and is where … Continue reading →

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