Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive draws on the rich palette of Poe’s evocative imagery and sharply drawn plots to tell the real story of the notorious author. The film features Tony Award-winning and Emmy-nominated actor Denis O’Hare and will air on American Masters (PBS) later this year.
This program is presented in partnership with the Boston Athenaeum and the Boston Public Library.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.