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Charles Baudelaire

Self-Portrait Discovery Shows Baudelaire In New Light

Reuters | Posted 04.18.2013 | Arts
Read More: Baudelaire Discovered, Self-Portrait, Drawing Discovery, Poets, Adolphe-Victor Geoffroy-Dechaume, Charles Baudelaire, Charles Baudelaire Portrait, Cite De L'Architecture, Honore-Daumier, Poetry, Arts News

PARIS, April 18 (Reuters) - The discovery of a lost self-portrait of Charles Baudelaire has rekindled interest in the 19th century French poet, reve...

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Silence of the Poets: Writers and Antidepressants

Andrew Shaffer | Posted 03.28.2013 | Books
Read More: Depression, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe, Antidepressants, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, David Foster Wallace, Sylvia Plath, Prozac, Charles Baudelaire, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chuck Palahniuk, Literary-Rogues, Books News
Andrew Shaffer

It's an exercise in futility to try to hypothesize what effect antidepressants would have had on long-gone writers like Poe and Baudelaire. Whether you function or not is a more pertinent question than whether or not antidepressants or substance abuse "silences the soul."

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Use Vice to Find Your Literary Voice

Jeff Klima | Posted 03.09.2013 | Comedy
Read More: Funny, Chris Christie, Destruction, Ken Kesey, Stephen King, Humor, Lewis Carroll, Hunter S. Thompson, Books, Hemingway, Drugs, Charles Baudelaire, Fitzgerald, Vice, James Joyce, Nightstalker, Voice, William S. Burroughs, Narcotics, Karen Carpenter, Sarcasm, Satire, Comedy News
Jeff Klima

So many writing tutorial books and articles focus on your actual writing, that most of the time, the other, dare I say, more important, aspects of your would-be author career get overlooked.

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Happy Birthday, Odilon Redon!

Posted 04.20.2012 | Arts
Read More: Symbolism, Video, Dreams, Edgar Allen Poe, Pastel, Claude Debussy, Slidewide, Charles Baudelaire, Odilon Redon, Artist Birthday, Redon, Arts News

We want to wish a happy birthday to one of our personal favorites: Bertrand-Jean Redon, aka Odilon Redon. The artist, who would be 172 today, created ...

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Definitive 'Flowers of Evil' Web Site

Jan Herman | Posted 08.22.2011 | Media
Read More: Flowers of Evil, Les Fleurs Du Mal, Supervert, Charles Baudelaire, Media News
Jan Herman

Fleursdumal.org contains every poem of each edition of Les Fleurs du mal, together with multiple English translations -- most of which are exclusive to this site and are now available in digital form for the first time ever.

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Portraits Of Authors In Their Own Words

flavorwire.com | Posted 06.18.2011 | Books
Read More: E.E. Cummings, Jorge Luis Borges, Toni Morrison, W.H. Auden, Joyce Carol Oates, Word Portraits, John Sokol, Song of Solomon, Author Drawings, Flannery O?Connor, Charles Baudelaire, Author Portraits, Portraits of Authors, Leo Tolstoy, Walt Whitman, War and Peace, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, Books News

People say that the lines in your face are representative of the life you’ve led – as in, love your laugh lines because clearly you’ve had a goo...

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Famous Literary Drunks And Drug Addicts

LIFE | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Edgar Allan Poe, Alcoholism, Dorothy Parker, Drunk Authors, Hunter S. Thompson, Writing, Alcoholic Authors, Authors, Charles Baudelaire, Books, Literary Drunks, Drug Addiction, Books News

Charles Baudelaire: "Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk."...

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