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💕 Was Edgar Allan Poe a hopeful romantic? In Providence, Rhode Island, he famously proposed to poet Sarah Helen Whitman– and the historic Providence Athenaeum was among their favorite haunts.

🚗📚Join @PBS Books and the @Library of Congress for the premiere of American Stories: A Reading Road Trip, as we uncover Rhode Island’s big literary legacy in America’s smallest state. From the eerie worlds of H.P. Lovecraft to the Pulitzer Prize-winning pages of Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies), to beloved children’s favorites like Knight Owl, discover how this coastal gem has inspired generations of storytellers.

📅 Sept 10 at 8 PM ET

📺 Streaming as a PBS Books Facebook Live event, on the PBS Books YouTube channel, pbsbooks.org, and the PBS app.
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