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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Apr 23

A rare picture of the Great American Novelist Jonathan Franzen taking his friend Carl bird watching at night.

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Apr 1

David Foster Wallace’s personal copy of Cormac McCarthy’s novel SUTTREE.

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Mar 10

Rare photograph of J.G. Ballard at his writing desk.

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Pynchon Names @pynchonnames.bsky.social · Mar 8

Napoleon Brown Goodson Culp

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Mar 3

A long lost Jorge Luis Borges manuscript, "The Fable of the Frogs" has , just been discovered

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Feb 28

A rare photograph of William S. Burroughs writing chair in his infamous "Bunker" studio in the Bowery. Photograph by Allan Ginsburg.

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Feb 13

This is disinformation that is not Kate Bush it is Kathy Acker in a wig

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · Feb 12

This photo of Kate Bush is SOMETHING ELSE

White woman in a bright yellow ballgown in an underground car park with an alligator on a leash

Photo credit: Claude Vanheye, Amsterdam (1979)

Dress - Fong Leng.

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Jan 10

Rare picture of Billy Vollmann’s “hesher era”

Internet K-Hole @internetkhole.bsky.social · Jan 10

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Pynchon Names @pynchonnames.bsky.social · Jan 8

Richard M. Zhlubb

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Dec 23

The Obscene Bird of Night, José Donoso (1970)

Internet K-Hole @internetkhole.bsky.social · Dec 22

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Dec 17

HP Lovecraft working on an early draft of The Terror of Dunwitch

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Dec 12

A rare colour photo graph of a young Samuel Beckett.

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Dec 11

This is William T. Vollmann's computer that he used in the late eighties and early nineties to write such hits as The Ice Shirts and Father Crow.

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Pynchon Names @pynchonnames.bsky.social · Dec 10

Luigi Mangione

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Dec 7

Incredibly rare photograph of Nicholas Cage preparing for a Harry Crews biopic that never went into full production.

Internet K-Hole @internetkhole.bsky.social · Dec 2

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Dec 2

An incredibly rare fotograph of wild man Hunter S Thompson in bed with his cat Kermit. He is reading Robert Evans’ memoir “The Kid Stays in the Picture”

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Nov 30

An early draft of CRASH by JG Ballard, circa 1971.

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Nov 19

Iconoclast William S. Burroughs researching his infamous novel Junkies. NYC circa 1955.

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Nov 17

A very rare picture of author Roberto Bolaño, circa 1973.

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Gaddis’s Ghost Coat @gaddisghost.bsky.social · Nov 17

No dregs.

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