“The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.”
James Baldwin
writers being real
Clarice Lispector being real on the beach with her sons, Rio de Janeiro, 1959
Bonus: via BookForum, Lispector apparently once wrote an advice column (!) for a Rio paper. She gave this advice:
“Act as if your problems don’t exist,” and “No matter how French your perfume is, it’s often the grilled meat that matters.”
(Source: g-ecx.images-amazon.com)
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.
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.
Ladies and gentlemen, Leslie Feinberg’s hand being real. Please read the text below too for more realness.
STONE BUTCH BLUES
DEDICATION for CECE McDONALD
I have taken back my author rights
to Stone Butch Blues.
I am working on plans for a
20th-anniversary author edition
of Stone Butch Blues
for Spring 2013
A digital multi-media edition will be
available free online.
A not-for-profit, at-cost print edition
will be available for order online,
as well.
During our visit in jail,
I asked CeCe McDonald
if I could dedicate
Stone Butch Blues to her.
I’m thrilled to announce:
She said “Yes!”
When I saw this attached photo
for the first time, it was clear to me,
that this is the dedication photograph!!
More information on
novel publication as it develops.
Soon, I’ll also post information
regarding translations.
FREE
CECE!
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.
