"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." Novelist, essayist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson, born 13 November 1850.

Nita Naldi in "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (adapted from the novella "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson who was also BOTD)- BOTD

William Gibson, left (with Anne Bancroft and Arthur Penn) - BOTD

Robert Louis Stevenson - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Robert Louis Stevenson (with scenes from the 1950 film "Treasure Island," adapted from the Stevenson novel of the same name) - BOTD

Lady Caroline Lamb - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Roland Barthes in "The Brontë Sisters" (with Marie-France Pisier) - BOTD

A Dull Afternoon — Edward Gorey, 1974

John McGahern - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost." Milan Kundera. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

Michael Ende - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

CLOSED. My second failed attempt to visit the Morrab Library in Penzance last month. Founded in the early 19C, the library is one of only around 60 independent libraries still in existence in the UK (& the only one in the whole of Cornwall). I did admire this cute sign on the front door though.

Tadeusz Borowski - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

HI HELLO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY.

Damon Galgut - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival." Kurt Vonnegut, born 11 November 1922.

Anaïs Nin by Carl Van Vechten, 1940

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (with scenes from the Akira Kurosawa film "The Idiot", adapted from the Dostoevsky novel of the same name) - BOTD

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Bouge pas chérie ! Robert Mapplethorpe, 1982

Isaac Bashevis Singer (with scenes from the Paul Mazursky film "Enemies, A Love Story" based on the Singer novel of the same name) - BOTD

Isaac Bashevis Singer - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Story Link 60 - "Lost Cat” by Mary Gaitskill - granta.com/lost-cat/ Let me know if you have any paywall issues. I am figuring out which publications to link to. 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Mary Gaitskill - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Kurt Vonnegut (with scenes from the George Roy Hill film adaptation of the Vonnegut novel "Slaughterhouse-Five") - BOTD

Kurt Vonnegut - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

"The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart." From 1959, the first paperback edition of Vonnegut's "The Sirens of Titan." Cover art by Richard Powers. Kurt Vonnegut, #BOTD.

Carlos Fuentes - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

On November 10, 1928, the first installment of “All Quiet on the Western Front,” Erich Maria Remarque’s acclaimed novel of World War I, appeared in the German magazine Vossische Zeitung. #OnThisDay

Book Cover of the Day:

Oliver Goldsmith - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

"I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me." Jorge Luis Borges.

James Broughton - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Friedrich von Schiller (with stills from Irish National Opera production of Rossini's "William Tell", based on Schiller's play "Wilhelm Tell") - BOTD

Friedrich von Schiller - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Last Book Read 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Fernanda Eberstadt - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/n... 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

“The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” ― Carl Sagan #BOTD Sagan holding the plaque affixed to the Pioneer spacecraft

Kay Thompson in the CBS's "Playhouse 90" presentation of "Eloise", directed by John Frankenheimer and based on the Eloise books written by Kay Thompson and illustrated by Hilary Knight (with Evelyn Rudie) - BOTD

Imre Kertész - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Imre Kertész (with scenes from the 2005 film adaptation of his novel "Fateless") - BOTD

Erika Mann (with then husband W.H. Auden) - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

«Assedio posto davanti il fuori inespugnabile. Febbre occhio-mano nella sete del non-sé. Occhio tramite la mano senza posa mutato nell'istante stesso in cui senza posa la muta. Sguardo che non si sottrae all'invisibile se non per assestarsi sul non fattibile, e ritorno lampo…

Ivan Turgenev - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ― Robert Frank #BOTD Robert Frank in his studio photographing Allen Ginsberg, 1984

Carl Sagan - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

#RemembranceSunday Despite having distinguished himself in battle during WW1, after he was hospitalized with shell-shock, poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) organized anti-war protests. Pictured with partner, Stephen Tennant (1906-1987) in happier days.

Anne Sexton - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

#Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD