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Regularly I’ll post a non-paywalled link to a short story by an interesting author. Afterwards I will repost your feedback to the stories. Throughout the month I’ll post literature related links and images.
Diana Vreeland at the premiere of "Trilogy" (with CZ Guest and Truman Capote) - BOTD
Pretty sure this contained my first taste of Wm. Burroughs. Found it on rotating wire racks in a local drugstore when I was about 13. Cost a me a quarter and a dime!
"...It is no simple longing for the home town or the country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known." (Carson McCullers)
Jim Thompson (with scenes from the Sam Peckinpah film adaptation of the Thompson novel "The Getaway") - BOTD
"He had made personality a profession, created a career out of selling himself. And he could not stray far, or for long, from his self-made self." Jim Thompson, born 27 September 1906.
Josef Škvorecký (with scenes from the 1969 Ladislav Rychman film "Six Black-Haired Girls" with a screenplay by Škvorecký) - BOTD
Decades before the term bibliomemoir was coined, Sheila Kaye-Smith invented the genre with All the Books of My Life (1956), in which she told her life through the books that inspired, irritated, and frightened her. neglectedbooks.com/?...
T.S. Eliot (with scenes from the 1951 film adaptation of the Eliot play "Murder in the Cathedral") - BOTD
Mark Haddon (with production stills of the stage adaptation of the Haddon novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time") - BOTD
William Faulkner (with scenes from the Douglas Sirk film "The Tarnished Angels", adapted from the Faulkner novel "Pylon") - BOTD
"It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books...It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life...shall be [ ] 'He made the books and he died.'" William Faulkner, #BOTD.
Sword and Blossom Poems from the Japanese, published around 1908 by T. Hasegawa in Tokyo. archive.org/details/swor...
