— Richard Siken, describing a different poem. (via quotesforintellectuals)

Giveaway: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) I know… there are only 11 pictured here. You’ll get to choose the 12th from hundreds in my giveaway stack.  Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 26 June. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

Literary history that happened on 8 April

Vincent Van Gogh’s stream of thoughts

Some more antique book covers for your feed.

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Beautiful Gladstone Press editions and bookmarks of The Great Gatsby and Mrs. Dalloway!

just give me books & coffee & doughnuts 

19th century leather bound prize bindings with marbled fore edges

Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll Illustrated by A H Watson London Collins 1939 [reprinted 7 times] this reprint from 1954

Selected Poems of W.B. Yeats

“Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” - The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (left) 1934 Modern Library edition (right) 2021 Modern Library edition from ml.books

Animal Farm, George Orwell

Here’s a stack of books written by women who specifically inspire me with their work and creativity

Paris, BnF, Nouvelle acquisition latine 3134, fol. 18v