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The hurricane may be over, but for many areas of Staten Island, New Jersey, Brooklyn, and Queens, the recovery is just beginning. Here, a reminder of the devastation visited on just one of these areas.

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I remember watching Ray Bradbury: Story of a Writer, a 1963 TV documentary, in seventh-grade English class. And for good reason: there’s more good advice for writing and life packed into these thirty minutes than in many a longer (and less entertaining) tutorial.

Here in New York, it’s dreary and gray. What better weather to enjoy a little Poe? No, not John Cusack. We were thinking more of this terrific 1954 animated version of “The Tell-Tale Heart,” narrated by the incomparable James Mason.