writers being real

The beautiful and brilliant Maya Angelou, may she rest in peace

Thank you for writing "by believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it" and the opposite of that: "the first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die."

"Act as if your problems don’t exist,” and “No matter how French your perfume is, it’s often the grilled meat that matters.”

Happy birthday to James "you think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read" Baldwin. Here he is dancing with Lorraine Hansberry.

Ray Bradbury has passed away. Here he is as a young man.

In honor of tonight's transit of Venus and the novel The Transit of Venus, I present to you Shirley Hazzard in Rome, 1958

Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the late (as of yesterday) Carlos Fuentes being real comedians at a book fair.

Vladmir “It is not improbable that had there been no revolution in Russia, I would have devoted myself entirely to lepidopterology and never written any novels at all" Nabokov at work.

Maurice Sendak (on the right) before he grew up and wrote the book we all read before we grew up. And also after we grew up. Rest in peace.

Please enjoy this picture of denim-clad Dorothy Allison lounging on a motorcycle

A young Eileen Myles being real handsome with this dog. Please note: they're wearing the same expression.

Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if you can handle this but: Virginia Woolf at the beach!

The Great Gatsby was published in April 1925, and in its honor, please enjoy F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Fitzgerald in their swimsuits