Ed Simon

Pittsburgh

Editor-in-Chief at Belt Magazine

Staff Writer at The Millions

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Articles

Punk, Poet, Prophet: In Praise of the Late, Great Shane MacGowan

1 month ago | lithub.com | Ed Simon

Bright-eyed and grey bearded, Ronnie Drew’s authoritatively gravely tenor seemed to erupt from his barrel chest and golden throat.
Punk, Poet, Prophet: In Praise of the Late, Great Shane MacGowan

1 month ago | flipboard.com | Ed Simon

9 hours agoShould you upgrade to Wi-Fi 7? Here's my advice after testing this next-gen at homeNon-tech-savvy users will appreciate the Eero 7's straightforward installation and consistently fast performance. ZDNET's key takeaways more buying …5 hours agoWhy All Three Of Washington's National Parks Should Be On Your Bucket ListDetermining which national parks should be on your bucket list can be both inspiring and frustrating.
In Praise of Wonder Boys (Both the Book AND the Movie)

1 month ago | lithub.com | Ed Simon

Architect Henry Hornbostel’s 1905 School of Applied Design, now Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Fine Arts building, is a beaux arts structure built around a cavernous, marble-laden Great Hall featuring a curved ceiling mural depicting the great buildings of the world—the Pantheon, Notre Dame—with schematic illustrations of similar landmarks inlaid into the floor.
“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

2 months ago | lithub.com | Ed Simon

Outfitted in a gray suit and white tie purchased at Kaufmann Brothers department store and with a calling card featuring the pseudonym “Simon Bachman,” ostensibly a New York employment agent, the twenty-five-year-old Russian anarchist Alexander Berkman stood outside of Pittsburgh’s Chronicle-Telegraph Building on a warm summer day in 1892.
Rubies Shored Against the Ruin

Jan 8, 2025 | themillions.com | Ed Simon

Rubies Shored Against the Ruin By the time the English poet and courtier Sir Philip Sidney was felled by a bullet among the low, frigid marshes of Zutphen in October of 1586, where he was fighting on behalf of Dutch independence, he had already spent quite a lot of time thinking about greatness, both personal and poetic.
Rubies Shored Against the Ruin

Jan 7, 2025 | everand.com | Ed Simon

By the time the English poet and courtier was felled by a bullet among the low, frigid marshes of Zutphen in October of 1586, where he was fighting on behalf of Dutch independence, he had already spent quite a lot of time thinking about , both personal and poeticDead at only 31, a partisan for the Protestant cause, in an anonymous portrait from a decade before Sidney is russet-haired with aquiline nose, handsome in his starched Elizabethan collar, white doublet, and black-and-gold threaded...
How Walter Benjamin’s Iconic Antifascist Essay Escaped Europe

Dec 12, 2024 | lithub.com | Ed Simon

Portbou, a provincial Catalonian fishing village of only a thousand souls framed by steep hills descending towards the temperate Mediterranean, is situated where the eastern most part of Spain kisses France.
Despair is a Luxury That We Can’t Afford

Nov 6, 2024 | beltmag.com | Ed Simon

By Ed Simon Otto Wels’ name is not commonly recognized in the United States; there are no streets or schools named after him, no statues or memorials in America.
Exhuming Dracula’s Ancestors: What Vampires Reveal About Our Latent Fears

Oct 30, 2024 | lithub.com | Ed Simon

Ed Simon Explores the History and Tradition of Unearthing the Long-Buried Past in Eastern Europe In 2014, an archeological team in Sozopol, Bulgaria unearthed a skeleton in a stone tomb held down with an iron sickle, each one of the teeth from his open jaw pried out. Similar remains have been found decapitated, their cackling skulls now placed between their bony legs, looking upwards through absent eyes at the scholars who uncover them. Article continues after advertisement “Ways to protect...
Exhuming Dracula’s Ancestors: What Vampires Reveal About Our Latent Fears

Oct 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Ed Simon

NowAll right, all right, we heard you. We will do a mash-up of current NBA stars as iconic Halloween movie franchise villains. Before we journey onward, a should-go-without-saying-but-still-necessary housekeeping note: This entire exercise is neither serious nor literal. We are not deriding player …