William Faulkner

“Everything faded into mist. The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became truth.” Published on 8 June 1949.

Marguerite Yourcenar (with scenes from the Volker Schlöndorff adaptation of the Yourcenar novel "Coup de Grace") - BOTD

Marguerite Yourcenar - BOTD

Orhan Pamuk - BOTD

Daniel Kraus - BOTD

Elizabeth Bowen - BOTD

Elizabeth Bowen (with scenes from the film adaptation of the Bowen novel "The Last September") - BOTD

Nikki Giovanni - BOTD

Harry Crews - BOTD

Louise Erdrich - BOTD

TIL that Melville Dewey, the inventor of the Dewey Decimal System, was a passionate advocate of Simplified Spelling — so much that he used it in his own guide to the system (signing himself as "Melvil").

Gwendolyn Brooks - BOTD

"Remember that tolerance becomes a crime when it is directed towards evil." from the 1924 novel The Magic Mountain Thomas Mann, June 6, 1875 – August 12, 1955.

On this first #Caturday of June, Edward Gorey by Richard Avedon (1992).

V.C. Andrews - BOTD

Thomas Mann (with scenes from the Paweł Pawlikowski film "Fatherland", inspired by an Erika and Thomas Mann road trip across Germany during the Cold War)

When Thomas Mann #BOTD Invented Podcasting medium.com/vatmh/when-t...

Ruslan and Ludmila (1972) Directed and co-written by Aleksandr Ptushko Based on the 1820 poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin - BOTD in 1799 #Caturday

Pierre Corneille - BOTD

Alexander Pushkin (with scenes from 1949 film adaptation of the Pushkin short story "The Queen of Spades") - BOTD

Alexander Pushkin - BOTD

No More Orchids, an early Carole Lombard film was based on a novel of the same name by Grace Perkins (who wrote Night Nurse and Ex-Mistress as Dora Macy). The film demonstrates that often the best thing Pre-Code Hollywood did to a novel was to squeeze it into a 75-minute box. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Akwaeke Emezi - BOTD

Dalí and García Lorca met in Madrid, in 1923, along with the filmmaker Luis Buñuel and the famous writer, Pepín Bello. All four of them formed a strong friendship during their student years while they lived at the Residencia de Estudiantes.

David Hare - BOTD

David Hare (with scenes from the Louis Malle film "Damage", screenplay by David Hare) - BOTD

Image from Yerma, a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca #BOTD (1961 production directed by A. Solomos)

Federico García Lorca (with Salvador Dali) - BOTD

Allen Ginsberg & Thelenious Monk at Monterey Jazz Festival 1963 📷Jim Marshall

Margaret Drabble (with Edna O'Brien) - BOTD

The S.C.U.M. (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto by Valerie Solanas Read text here: ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/r…

Ivy Compton-Burnett - BOTD

A poem is like a radio that can broadcast continuously for thousands of years. (Allen Ginsberg)

“Early in the twentieth century, when Roy Earle was a happy boy on an Indiana farm, he had no idea that at thirty-seven he’d be a pardoned ex-convict driving alone through the Nevada-California desert toward an ambiguous destiny in the Far West.”

Truman Capote (1948) by Irving Penn

Carson McCullers’ debut novel, “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” was published on June 4, 1940. She was only 23 years old at the time.

"Men by themselves, and in numbers, are the greatest beasts on earth. Like trees, they require thinning out." Catherine Gore was the queen of the "Silver Spoon" novelists. Men of Capitol (1846) is full of plot twists, biting observations, and glimpses of early Victorianism. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Joe Hill - BOTD

Last Book Read

Val McDermid -BOTD

Birdbrain · Allen Ginsberg www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtlV...

Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919-2021) Poet, publisher & co-founder of City Lights booksellers. Never stop reading especially the books that don't make it on to contemporary best seller lists. Feel good books are duvets of the mind, if you want more, search for it.

“I decided I could lose nothing by the soft approach. If that didn't produce for me—and I didn't think it would—nature could take its course and we could bust up the furniture.”

Larry McMurtry (with scenes from the Peter Bogdanovich film "The Last Picture Show". McMurtry coauthored the screenplay with Bogdanovich, based on McMurtry's 1966 novel of the same name) - BOTD

Larry McMurtry - BOTD

Belmont Books' normal fare was Westerns (Fast Gun), thrillers (Hong Kong Kill), and sex (Jailbait Jungle). But occasionally, really interesting books slipped through under a lurid cover. On this date in 2018, I looked at six books you can't judge by looking at the cover. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Allen Ginsberg (with Marianne Moore) - BOTD

Marquis de Sade - BOTD