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  1. ... and here is the #EdwardGorey biography "Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey" by @markdery on the "grandfather of Goth"

    #biography #GothicLiterature #QueerWriters #AmericanWriters #Gothic

  2. 3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
    Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman

    #AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies

  3. 3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
    Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman

    #AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies

  4. 3 new books on remarkable men in our library!
    Ralf Webb's book "Strange Relations - Masculinity, Sexuality & Art in Mid-Century America" reads 4 bisexual #AmericanWriters (#TennesseeWilliams, #CarsonMcCullers, #Cheever & #Baldwin) with #WaltWhitman

    #AmericanStudies #MasculinityStudies #QueerStudies

  5. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ American Writers ✧

    American Writers is an 1824–25 work of literary criticism by American writer and critic John Neal (pictured). Published by Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, it is the first history of American literature and the first substantial work of criticism concerning US authors. Using no reference materials, Neal made incorrect assertion...

    #AmericanWriters #EdinburghMagazine #Blackwood #Maine #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American

  6. Eve Babitz and Joan Didion may be dead. But their feud isn’t

    “A new book on the Los Angeles authors leaves no petty stone unturned as it explores their fraught friendship” 📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 🌴

    #writers #WomenWriters #bookstodon #AmericanWriters #CaliforniaWriters #literature

    theguardian.com/us-news/2024/n

  7. "Could you write what you write if you weren’t so tiny, Joan?"—Eve Babitz, in a letter to Joan Didion, 1972 📚 🇺🇸 ✍🏽 🌴 #writers #WomenWriters #bookstodon #AmericanWriters #CaliforniaWriters #quotes #literature #LiteraryQuotes