The Parapraxis Project

that high school sketch my friend held onto. graphite and paper

Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

The Mountain Goats, Amy aka Spent Gladiator 1

Francis Bacon, ‘Painting’, oil and pastel on linen, 1946, collection Museum of Modern Art, New York, purchase, 1948, the first work by Francis Bacon to enter a major public collection

(via Elizabeth on Pinterest)

— What Follows Is a Reconstruction Based on the Best Available Evidence, Michael Wasson

The Van Gogh Blues

— Susan Sontag, from As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: “August, 1964”

Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1918

the unabridged journals of sylvia plath, sylvia plath // little father, li-young lee // dostoevsky and parricide, sigmund freud // forest, crystal vega-huerta // the pulling, sharon olds // salt water, peter campion // learning late letters, quyên nguyễn-hoàng // the woods, daughter // the cubist painters, guillaume apollinaire // deathwatch, michael ryan.

— written by Donna Tartt, from The Secret History (pages 6-12), originally published c. 1992

Henry James  2. Vincent van Gogh  3. Rainer Maria Rilke

1889

4 - The artist and his wife Marie Suzanne Giroust, 1767 (And he’s also wearing shot silk!)