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Edward Gorey
Here’s what’s making us happy
this
week.
By
Brittany Allen
| October 3, 2025
Edward Gorey's "Great Simple Theory About Art" is essential reading for writers.
By
Emily Temple
| February 19, 2025
From “Ted” to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes Edward Gorey Sent to His Pen Pal
A Selection of Gorey's Colorful, Curious Letters to Tom Fitzharris
By
Literary Hub
| February 14, 2025
This spooky season, take a virtual tour of Edward Gorey's elephant house.
By
Katie Yee
| October 20, 2021
20 Famous Writers’ Sartorial Trademarks, Ranked
In Honor of the Hard Pants We Will Soon Wear Once More
By
Emily Temple
| April 23, 2021
In praise of Edward Gorey, style icon.
By
Walker Caplan
| April 15, 2021
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
Edward Gorey designed the sets for the 1970s Broadway production of
Dracula
.
By
Olivia Rutigliano
| October 27, 2020
10 of the Creepiest Author Photos Ever Captured
By
Emily Temple
| October 25, 2019
My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)
By
Elizabeth Bales Frank
| July 23, 2019
Edward Gorey, Frank O'Hara and Harvard's Gay Underground
"Gorey and O’Hara were a subculture unto themselves."
By
Mark Dery
| December 17, 2018
Lit Hub's Fall 2018 Nonfiction Preview: History & Biography
Read Up on Sylvia Plath, Myers-Briggs, and the Real Lolita
By
Emily Temple
| September 18, 2018
Edward Gorey's Illustrated Covers for Literary Classics
Spooky Treatments of Kafka, Dickens, Conrad, and More
By
Emily Temple
| April 13, 2018
Inside Edward Gorey's Massachusetts Home
The Iconic Illustrator Was, Unsurprisingly, a Collector of Art
By
Erin Monroe
| April 13, 2018
On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey
From Wittgenstein to The Golden Girls, a Man of Varied Interests
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| May 3, 2017
7 Novels That Explore Motherhood's Complexities
November 4, 2025
by
Donna Freitas
To Break Up with Friends, or to Murder Them: 5 Novels Featuring Fatal Friendship Failings
November 4, 2025
by
Jenna Satterthwaite
The Trauma Behind the "Good Old Days": Christina Henry on the Dark Trap of Nostalgia in Fiction
November 4, 2025
by
Christina Henry
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Not much happens In fact there is much in the text that is not made…"