James Joyce, 1928. Berenice Abbott.

“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.” Harper Lee, “To Kill a Mockingbird”.

Connie Willis - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

#BOTD 1839 John Todhunter: Irish poet and playwright who wrote seven volumes of poetry, and several plays. John Todhunter share.google/aPsRU69JKsPf...

Junot Díaz - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

"Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year and leave it at that." - Dorothy Parker Parker & Alan Campbell at a Webster Hall New Year’s Party 🥳 📷 Peter Stackpole, 1938

"The soul is the weariest part of the body." -Paul Bowles #BOTD Author and composer Paul Bowles in 1952

Writer and composer Paul Bowles, born 30 December 1910.

There was a time when owning books was a privilege. People wrote rhymes in them warning against theft. Late C17th examples include 'Steal not this book for fear of shame. For in it you see the owner's name. And if I catch you by the tail. You must prepare for Newgate jail.'

Patti Smith at the Hotel Chelsea (with Sam Shepard) - BOTD

“I love my past. I love my present. I’m not ashamed of what I’ve had, and I’m not sad because I have it no longer.” Colette.

Douglas Coupland - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Theodor Fontane (with scenes from the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film adaptation of the Fontane novel "Effi Briest") - BOTD

Theodor Fontane - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Donald Friede was a publisher and patron of the arts who had the luck to stumble into some of the most interesting literature, art, and music of the 20th century. His memoir, The Mechanical Angel (1948), though, is candid about his own errors of judgment and bad choices. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Paul Bowles - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

L.P. Hartley (with scenes from the Joseph Losey film "The Go-Between", adapted from the Hartley novel of the same name by Harold Pinter) - BOTD

L.P. Hartley - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Rudyard Kipling (with scenes from "The Jungle Book", loosely adapted from the Kipling) - BOTD

Rudyard Kipling - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

"Les œuvres d'art sont toujours le fruit du danger, du dépassement de soi, d'une expérience qui repousse les limites extrêmes que nul ne peut franchir". Aujourd'hui, en 1926, s'éteignait l'écrivain, poète et dramaturge autrichien Rainer Maria Rilke.

Christian Kracht (with scenes from the film "Sisi & I". The screenplay was cowritten by Kracht with his director spouse Frauke Finsterwalder) - BOTD

Christian Kracht - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Somerset Maugham, Bealieu, France, by Richard Avedon, 1958.

Vera Brittain - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

“All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.” Aldous Huxley, “Crome Yellow”.

William Gaddis - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Manuel Puig, born 28 December 1932.

Simone de Beauvoir, the day of the Prix Goncourt, next to a window writing, Paris, 1954. Gisèle Freund.

Henry Miller (Paris, 1930)

Manuel Puig (with scenes from the Wong Kar-wai film "Happy Together" inspired by Puig's novel "The Buenos Aires Affair") - BOTD

"Gentil Lecteur, le verbe va se ruer sur toi, te broyer avec ses griffes d'homme-léopard, t'arracher doigts et orteils comme on fait aux crabes opportunistes, te pendre au gibet et happer ton foutre comme un chien scrutable..." William Burroughs

Alasdair Gray (with scenes from the Yorgos Lanthimos film adaptation of the Gray novel "Poor Things") - BOTD

Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is. (Ernest Hemingway) "The Old Man and the Sea"

J. M. Barrie's My Lady Nicotine (1896) — A genre-defying work by the creator of Peter Pan about the pleasures of smoking: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/my-lady-nicotine

Manuel Puig - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

“All that was once directly lived has become mere representation.” -Guy Debord #BOTD

Alasdair Gray - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.” James Baldwin. ph. Ralph Gatti.

Louis Bromfield (with scenes from the Clarence Brown film adaptation of the Bromfield novel "The Rains Came") - BOTD

Louis Bromfield - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Nadine Gordimer 💙📚 #LiteratureSky #Caturday

Elizabeth Smart - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Six years ago on this date, the pioneering champion of cutting-edge fiction, Richard Kostelanetz, let me reprint his 1988 survey of 13 neglected classics of experimental American fiction, most of which are still out of print decades later. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Jean Toomer - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Il était ridicule, passé cinquante ans, d'être encore déçu parce qu'il n'y avait pas de neige un matin de Noël, mais les gens d'un certain âge ne sont jamais aussi sérieux que les jeunes le croient. Georges Simenon 📚 Un Noël de Maigret (1951)

Jean Echenoz - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

'I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.' Jack Kerouac, Lonesome Traveler

David Sedaris - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky