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Regularly I’ll post a non-paywalled link to a short story by an interesting author. Afterwards I will repost your feedback to the stories. Throughout the month I’ll post literature related links and images.

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 18h

Harvey Pekar - BOTD
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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 23h

Vladimir Nabokov, 1959.

@Marc Riboud.

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 18h

John Cowper Powys - BOTD
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 20h

"My head is a howling wilderness."

Edna St. Vincent Millay, from a letter to her mother featured in Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 20h

Marina Tsvetaeva - BOTD
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 20h

Frank Herbert (with scenes of the David Lynch film adaptation of the Herbert novel "Dune") - BOTD

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 20h

Frank Herbert - BOTD
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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 20h

Last Book Read
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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 20h

Claire Messud - BOTD
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 1d

Signed by the author!

Signed interior, number 919 of a thousand.

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X Ray Eyes @xrayeyes.bsky.social · 3d

«I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free»

Sylvia Plath, Ariel, 1965.

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 1d

Clive James - BOTD
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@dlp. @umadlp.bsky.social · 2d

“The best part was pulling down the shades, stuffing the doorbell with rags, putting the phone in the refrigerator and going to bed for 3 or 4 days. And the next best part was nobody ever missed me.”

Charles Bukowski.

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 1d

Anita Shreve - BOTD
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 2d

“Do not whine. Do not complain. Spend more time alone.”

Joan Didion

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 1d

Thomas Keneally - BOTD
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Nick J. Brown @northernmailman.bsky.social · 2d

Happy New Pynchon Novel Day to all who celebrate!

A Thomas Pynchon balloon in an NY parade

A copy of Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon

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Story Group @storygroup.bsky.social · 1d

Sherman Alexie - BOTD
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Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 1d

October 7, 1955: Allen Ginsberg read Howl publicly for the first time at The Six Gallery in San Francisco.

6 Gallery Poets ✲ Philip Lamantia, Michael McClure, Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Kenneth Rexroth ✲ Friday, October 7, 1955 ✲ 3119 Fillmore, San Francisco, California.