J.G. Ballard’s Experimental Text Collages: 'Project for a New Novel', his 1958 Foray into Avant-Garde Literature. #JGBallard #BOTD #Ballardian #ExperimentalLiterature

"Looking back over my life so far I am able to remember specific days that were perfect. These tend to be days, and parts of days, in which nothing in particular happened, except that I was utterly happy." Daniel Pinkwater #BOTD

“Art exists because reality is neither real nor significant.” #JGBallard Ballard in costume for his blink-and-you-miss it cameo in Empire of the Sun (1987)

Alexander Sentsov, 1980

Tennessee Williams on the 'work-in-progress' set of "A Streetcar Named Desire" late in 1947.

J. G. Ballard (with scenes from the David Cronenberg film adaptation of the Ballard novel "Crash") - BOTD

J. G. Ballard - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

#BOTD 1869 Charlotte Mary Mew: English poet whose work spanned the eras of Victorian poetry and Modernism. "Thomas Hardy said she was the “greatest poetess” he knew, Siegfried Sassoon maintained she was “the only poet who can give me a lump in my throat”. www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/charlo...

Tibor Fischer - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

1953 Tennessee Williams visita a Peggy Guggenheim en su palazzo veneciano. [Frank Scherschel]

Gerhart Hauptmann - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

“In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.” ― J.G. Ballard #BOTD Image: J.G. Ballard self portrait 1950

Some snaps from inside James Merrill’s apartment. It’s pretty obvious a poet lived here

Joyce Carol Oates 💙📚 #LiteratureSky #Caturday

Sacheverell Sitwell - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Peter Greave's father was a con man and a flasher. His mother died when he was eleven. He contracted leprosy in 1938 & spent years as a beggar in a Calcutta slum, until he was brought to England for treatment. His memoirs are eloquent, moving ... and not entirely honest. neglectedbooks.com/?...

Marianne Moore (with Allen Ginsberg) - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

On November 14, 1851, Herman Melville published “Moby-Dick” in the U.S. A novel considered a great classic of American literature was originally a big flop.

Karen Armstrong - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Françoise Sagan © Bert Hardy

P.J. O’Rourke - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Ivana Lowell - lady Caroline Blackwood & Lucian Freud on honeymoon, 1949.

William Steig - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Whatever needs to be maintained by force is doomed. Henry Miller

Astrid Lindgren - BOTD 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

"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