This Sunday, 160 years almost to the day since his sorry passing, Poe will finally be given the send off that his multitude of fans passionately believe he deserved. At 11.30am, a life-size recreation of his body will be carried in a horse-drawn carriage from his Baltimore home in Amity Street, to the Westminster Burying Ground where not one, but two full-length ceremonies will be held in front of up to 700 admirers, some of whom will have travelled from as far away as Vietnam.

Sehr seltsame Geschichte im Guardian: An diesem Sonntag wird in Baltimore Edgar Allan Poe begraben.

Dear bloggers and websites who are trying to type "Herta Müller" now but instead it shows up in my browser as "Herta Müller" or "Herta Muller": It is perfectly acceptable to use the an "ue" as a substitute for "ü" when you're not using a German QWERTZ keyboard. It's better than reading about the Nobel Prize and thinking the winner has a series of obscene words in the middle of her last name.