Mo Yan (with scenes from the Zhang Yimou film adaptation of his novel "Red Sorghum " featuring Gong LI) - BOTD

Mo Yan - BOTD

Ruth Rendell (with scenes from the Claude Chabrol film "La Cérémonie" which was adapted from her novel "A Judgement in Stone") - BOTD

Ruth Rendell - BOTD

Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, 1970

Isabelle Eberhardt - BOTD

If you only know Barry Humphries #BOTD as Dame Edna, you might be surprised to learn that 60 years ago he published one of the strangest collections of ephemera and text ever compiled. The book included freak show photos, Mirbueau’s Torture Garden, Fluxus style artworks, and more

Sadegh Hedayat - BOTD

Skills of a librarian

Lev Tolstoy

Richard Ford (with scenes from the Paul Dano film adaptation of the Ford novel "Wildlife") - BOTD

Ernest Hemingway

Ray Bradbury in the ‘Time Machine’ movie prop, circa 1960

Richard Ford - BOTD

Octave Mirbeau (with scenes from the Jean Renoir film adaptation of the 1900 Mirbeau novel "The Diary of a Chambermaid") - BOTD

Octave Mirbeau - BOTD

L'animal littéraire André Kertész

Iain Banks - BOTD

"The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are its monstrous flowers and its hideous instruments of eternal human suffering." -Octave Mirbeau #BOTD

Aharon Appelfeld - BOTD

Sax Rohmer - BOTD

"You, my own deep soul, trust me. I will not betray you. My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing. What mystery breaks over me now? In its shadow I come into life. For the first time I am alone with you— you, my power to feel." Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours I.

Art Spiegelman - BOTD

Miranda July (with scenes from her film "Kajillionaire") - BOTD

Miranda July - BOTD

Masuji Ibuse (with scenes from the Shōhei Imamura adaptation of his novel "Black Rain") - BOTD

Masuji Ibuse - BOTD

Doris Lessing #Caturday

Cover of THE CHARLES MINGUS CAT-ALOG FOR TOILET TRAINING CATS Mingus is justly acclaimed as a towering genius of jazz. And his autobiography BENEATH THE UNDERDOG is an essential read. But did you know he also wrote this guide to toilet training your cat? Truly a brilliant man. #Caturday

Haruki Murakami #Caturday

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.” Virginia Woolf.

Georges Simenon (with scenes from "Panique", the Julien Duvivier of his novel "Les fiançailles de M. Hire")- BOTD

Arthur Miller

Georges Simenon (with scenes from "The Man from London", the Béla Tarr adaptation of his novel "L'Homme de Londres")- BOTD

Georges Simenon - BOTD

If a picture is worth a thousand words... Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, married 1949 - 1972.

Simon Schama - BOTD

John Florea, Rita Hayworth, 1948.

Jacqueline Woodson - BOTD

«Sono abitata da un grido. Di notte esce svolazzando in cerca, con i suoi uncini, di qualcosa da amare» Sylvia Plath in uno scatto di Gordon Ames Lameyer durante una vacanza a Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Giugno del 1954.

George Meredith - BOTD

Because of this story I can never give signed books to charity and if I buy one which turns out to have an inscription I feel bad for the signatory

Judy Blume - BOTD

Gordon Lish - BOTD

Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale." Gabriel García Márquez, Life. ph. © Rodrigo Moya, 1966.

Sidney Sheldon during the SHARE Boomtown Party (with Janet Leigh) - BOTD

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.” Philip K. Dick

Patrick Leigh Fermor - BOTD