An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England

An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England is a 2007 novel by Brock Clarke. The novel centers on a man who accidentally burns down the home of Emily Dickinson, and in the process, kills a couple who were making love in her bed. During his years in prison, he and his family receive volumes of fan mail asking that he also burn down other famous literary homes, such as those of Mark Twain and Nathaniel Hawthorne. After his release, someone begins to do just that, with the hero being forced to find out who wants to frame him by destroying the homes of celebrated writers.

Bibliography

• "Burn Down a Poet’s House, and the Mail Just Pours In", New York Times.
• "An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England", St. Louis Dispatch.
• "'An Arsonist's Guide to Writers' Homes in New England' by Brock Clarke", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• "Onetime teenage arsonist tries to escape his incendiary past", San Francisco Chronicle.

External links

• Official site
• "Interview with Brock Clarke," Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program, November 2009
• - An interview with Brock Clarke, 'Memorious' magazine