Handsome young writers

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Yukio Mishima, Paris, 1965.

"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed." Herman Melville, "Poor Man's Pudding and Rich Man's Crumbs" 1854

"I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction?" John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charley: In Search of America" 1962

If you thought "ah, young Kafka! How old is he here? 17? 20 maybe?" WRONG! This is a full grown man at 27…

George Platt Lynes, Tennessee Williams c. March 1944

James Baldwin photographed by Carl Van Vechten on September 13, 1955.

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda and their daughter Scottie dance in their Paris home on Christmas 1925.

“You’re dead. You can’t live, you can’t think, you can’t love. You’re dead. You’re a plague gone bad. There’s no juice in you. You’re nothing but an odor.”  Harold Pinter, “The Birthday Party”  1957

Christopher Isherwood at the window of his Berlin apartment, 1933, by Humphrey Spender

Federico García Lorca

(Thomas McAvoy. 1955)

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.” Herman Melville, “Moby-Dick; or, The Whale” 1851

James Baldwin photographed by Dave Pickoff in Harlem, June 1963. 

James Baldwin and Bob Dylan, December 13, 1963.

Ingeborg Bachmann, 1962 by Mario Dondero

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.“ Jack Kerouac, “On the Road”  1957