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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 17

1558 – French Cardinal Charles de Lorraine requests that the French Ambassador to Rome report scandals involving Cardinal Carlo Carafa and Giovanni Carafa, Duke of Paliano to Pope Paul VI. They had engaged in "that sin so loathsome in which there is no longer a distinction between the male and female sex." They are first exiled then sentenced to death.

1886 – On this date the British novelist Ronald Firbank was born in London (d.1926). Firbank was a prototype for Evelyn Waugh. His best novels are Caprice (1917) and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926). The latter book begins with the cardinal baptizing a police puppy named Crack, and ends when the naked cardinal ("elementary now as Adam himself") drops dead while pursuing a choirboy named Chicklet around his church. Firbank was not without his own eccentricities. He as known to wear two dressing gowns at once, painted his nails, lived in an apartment painted black, and owned only books bound in blue leather. He dined only on champagne and flower petals and died malnourished.

At one time, Firbank visited Rome with the intention of taking holy orders; however, as he later revealed in a letter to Lord Berners, "The Church of Rome wouldn't have me, and so I mock her." Accordingly, his mature fiction is populated with a ribald gallery of homosexual choirboys, lesbian nuns, cross-dressing priests, salacious bishops, flagellants, and self-canonized saints.

His work was championed by a large number of English novelists including E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Simon Raven and the poet W. H. Auden . Susan Sontag named his novels as constituting part of "the canon of camp" in her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp."

1927 – Eartha Kitt (d.2008) was an American singer, actress, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit recordings of "C'est Si Bon" and the enduring Christmas novelty smash "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her the "most exciting woman in the world." She took over the role of Catwoman for the third and final season of the 1960s Batman television series, replacing Julie Newmar, who was unavailable due to other commitments. She also voiced Yzma on Disney's The Emperor's New Groove and its television spinoff, The Emperor's New School, earning five Emmy Awards in the process, the last shortly before her death.

Kitt became a vocal advocate for homosexual rights and publicly supported same-sex marriage, which she considered a civil right. She had been quoted as saying: "I support it [gay marriage] because we're asking for the same thing. If I have a partner and something happens to me, I want that partner to enjoy the benefits of what we have reaped together. It's a civil-rights thing, isn't it?" Kitt famously appeared at many LGBT fundraisers, including a mega event in Baltimore, Maryland, with George Burns and Jimmy James. Scott Sherman, an agent at Atlantic Entertainment Group, stated: "Eartha Kitt is fantastic... appears at so many LGBT events in support of civil rights."

1956 – The poet Allen Ginsberg wrote his intensely personal anti-war, love-hate poem "America" on this date. He later published it in his collection "Howl." It is one of the first poems to deal openly and honestly with homosexuality. "America "is a largely political work, with much of the poem consisting of various accusations against the United States, its government, and its citizens.

Ginsberg uses sarcasm to accuse America of a ttempting to divert responsibility for the Cold War ("America you don't want to go to war/ it's them bad Russians / Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. / And them Russians"), and makes numerous references to both leftist and anarchist political movements and figures (including Sacco and Vanzetti , the Scottsboro Boys and the Wobblies). Ginsberg's dissatisfaction, however, is tinged with optimism and hope, as exemplified by phrases like "When will you end the human war?" (as opposed to "why don't you...?"). The poem's ending is also highly optimistic, a promise to put his "queer shoulder to the wheel," although the original draft ended on a bleaker note: "Dark America! toward whom I close my eyes for prophecy, / and bend my speaking heart! / Betrayed! Betrayed!"

1975 – Tom Dolby is an American novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor. He is the author of the best-selling novel The Trouble Boy (2004), The Sixth Form (2008), and the Secret Society books, including Secret Society (2009) and The Trust: A Secret Society Novel (2011). He was also the co-editor of Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys (2007).

Tom Dolby's debut novel, The Trouble Boy, concerns a young gay freelance writer in Manhattan. It was followed by the boarding school novel The Sixth Form (2008), set in an elite Massachusetts prep school. Dolby's first young adult novel, Secret Society, was published in October 2009. Its followup, The Trust: A Secret Society Novel, was released in February 2011.

He was also the co-editor, with the novelist Melissa de la Cruz, of the personal essay anthology Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys: True Tales of Love, Lust, and Friendship Between Straight Women and Gay Men (2007), featuring works by various gay writers. A reality television show inspired by the anthology, entitled Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys aired on the Sundance Channel in Winter 2010.

He currently lives in Manhattan and Wainscott, New York. In June 2008, his engagement to Andrew Frist was announced. Dolby and Frist were legally married in Connecticut in April 2009, and celebrated their union with a wedding ceremony and reception for family and friends in Sonoma, California in September 2009. Dolby and Frist were involved in an appeal that raised over $150,000 towards efforts to promote the legalisation of same-sex marriage in California.

1977 – The Arkansas Supreme Court rules that the drunk tank of the local jail is a public place for sexual purposes.

Ryan Russell (L) with Corey O'Brien

1992 – Ryan Russell is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football at Purdue University.

Following the death of close friend and former teammate Joseph Gilliam in 2018, Russell suffered from a severe bout of depression. He moved to Los Angeles and began writing.

In August 2019, he came out publicly as bisexual in an essay for ESPN. He did so to live honestly and without fear of being outed; he also cited the fear of not being able to support his mother and grandfather if he lost his career. At the same time he introduced his boyfriend Corey O'Brien, a dancer; they opened Corey & Russ, a YouTube channel; as of June 2020, they have over 15,600 followers.

A former NFL offensive lineman Ryan O'Callaghan, who came out as gay after he left the league, said that as of August 2019 every NFL team had at least one closeted gay or bisexual player. Sarah McBride, national Press Secretary for Human Rights Campaign, praised Russell for "creating more space and opportunity for young LGBTQ people to dream big and to pursue their goals".

In April 2021, Russell penned an article in The Guardian against the anti-trans laws being proposed in multiple American states, stating that "sport is one of the strongest conduits to help show society what it is capable of when we come together, but it has to be used for the better of all of us."

2009 – In a New York Times op-ed column on this date, Mary Frances Berry, the chair of the Commission On Civil Rights from 1993-2004, called for the "abolishing" of the commission she headed for 11 years and its replacement with one that will fully address LGBT rights. She wrote:

"The Commission on Civil Rights has been crippled since the Reagan years by the appointments of commissioners who see themselves as agents of the presidential administration rather than as independent watchdogs. The creation of a new, independent human and civil rights commission could help us determine our next steps in the pursuit of freedom and justice in our society. A number of explosive issues like immigration reform await such a commission, but recommendations for resolving the controversies over the rights of Gays, Lesbians and Transgendered people should be its first order of business."

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Do you have books or poetry that you reread at specific times/seasons/moods?

Oh hiiiiiii!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am not a great re-reader to be completely honest with you because i read so slowly that it feels like wasted time a little bit. There are works that I revisit and read sections of or associate really strongly with the seasons though. I think I prefer lighter stuff in the summer and as the months get colder, then my reading tastes get weirder or more non-fiction-y?

Like Spring is Romantic/Light Academia Season so books like:

The Silver Horn of Robin Hood; The Outlaws of Sherwood by Robin McKinley; all of Jane Austen; Anne of Green Gables; As You Like It; Much Ado About Nothing with poems like "The Highwayman"; "The Hound of Heaven"; "A Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Song of Songs; "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways"; Joy Davidman's sonnets to C.S. Lewis but particularly Sonnet XXIX; Shakespeare's Sonnet 29.

Summer is like the Epics/Adventure/Series/General Escapism:

Stephen Fry's Troy; The Iliad; Swiss Family Robinson; all of Sharon Kay Penman's books i love this woman rip queen; The Queen's Thief books by Meghan Whalen Turner aka the greatest story ever told; I also love reading some Amy Tan's books; mysteries series like i love a Longmire book in the summer; middle grade stuff like Harry Potter or Percy Jackson; with poems like "When I Have Crossed the Bar"; "Annabel Lee" by Poe; "Having a Coke with You" by Frank O'Hara and honestly this is spicy but also "Please Master" by Allen Ginsberg i'm not sorry

Autumn is like Dark Academia/Classics:

The Oresteia; The Odyssey; Trojan Women; The Silence of the Girls; Great Expectations; The Matthew Shardlake mysteries; I just read If We Were Villains and The Essex Serpent which are both very dark academia; love a book about an author like I'm really looking forward to reading the biography of Margaret Wise Brown that came out recently; Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber; Antony Sherr's The Year of the King; George Bernard Shaw's commentaries on Shakespeare. Poems/collections like Averno and The Meadowlands by Louise Gluck; October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepherd

Winter is like I'm Reading By the Fire, Comfort Me

I mean like blah blah i genuinely love A Christmas Carol; Jack London's A Call of the Wild; Sherlock Holmes stories; The Once and Future King by T.H. White; Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis; A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas; poems like "The Shortest Day" by Susan Cooper; A Letter to a Friend by Fra Giovanni; “The Lament of Art O’Leary”; my grandmother's favorite poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee" by Robert W. Service; "Do not go gently into that good night" also by Dylan Thomas; "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" and "The Impulse" by Robert Frost

What about you???

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 2 years

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DREAMING WALLS: INSIDE THE CHELSEA HOTEL (2022)

Featuring Merle Lister Levine, Zoe Serac Pappas, Nicolas Pappas, Rose Cory, Susan Kleinsinger, Joe Corey, Gerald Busby, Skye Ferrante, Eugenie Sappho, Steve Willis, Bettina Grossman, Gina Healy and Pablo Martinez.

Directed by Amélie van Elmbt and Maya Duverdier.

Distributed by Magnolia Pictures. 80 minutes. Not Rated.

The Chelsea Hotel (now called The Hotel Chelsea) is on 23rd Street in Manhattan (in the funky neighborhood the place is named after). The place is a legend in the hospitality industry, once a grand meeting place for the rich and influential which turned into a slightly squalid, but still famous colony for artists. Countless famous writers and musicians and artists have stayed in these walls since the 1884 opening, including Mark Twain, Arthur C. Clarke, Allen Ginsberg, Arthur Miller and Gregory Corso. Dylan Thomas was staying there when he grew ill and died days later in a local hospital.

Dozens of songs have been written about the hotel, including Leonard Cohen’s “Chelsea Hotel #2,” Nico’s “Chelsea Girl,” Jon Bon Jovi’s ‘Midnight in Chelsea,” Phoebe Bridgers’ “Chelsea” and Joni Mitchell’s “Chelsea Morning” (there is some debate about whether the song is about the hotel, or an apartment Mitchell briefly had on nearby 16th Street in the same neighborhood.) Cohen, Janis Joplin and Bob Dylan stayed there for months at a time.

Punk rocker Sid Vicious of The Sex Pistols killed his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, in one of the rooms. There were many other deaths in the hotel, including Japanese artist Hiroya who finished a mural in the hotel in 2007 and then promptly jumped down the hotel’s famous staircase. Eventually so many people died in the hotel that it got a reputation for being haunted.

It is a New York City landmark, but long ago had fallen into disrepair. In 2011, the hotel was essentially closed for a long-term renovation plan – which ended up lasting over a decade. The hotel finally quietly reopened in February 2022, a fact which happened too late to be included in this documentary.

However, while the wholesale renovations took place and the Chelsea was often just a shell of itself, a certain number of long-time residents stayed – many of whom had rent-controlled apartments and could not be evicted. (One of the interviewees here gave her rent as an insanely affordable $315 a month, for which you couldn’t even get a parking spot in Manhattan normally.) Some loved the place. Some had just been there forever and didn’t want to find someplace new to live. For some it was the history of the place. For others it was money. Whatever the reason, 10-20 hardcore tenants decided to ride out the renovations – often having to move to other units, just to save their homes.

The new owners of the hotel (and the ownership of the place changed three times during the 11 years of renovations) couldn’t be bothered to make things easier for the last tenants. In fact they’d prefer they leave so the rooms could be rented out at more expensive rates.

Dreaming Walls is not so much about the storied history of the building (although it does touch on it, periodically). It is more about these last holdouts, the tenants who lived amongst the dust and the rubble and the noise as the Chelsea was fitfully trying to be brought back to life – a life which many of these long-time tenants could not afford. One man pointed out that the hotel had built a back service elevator for the live-in tenants, because the owners didn’t want them to be seen by the tourists when the hotel reopened.

Not surprisingly with the history of the place, most of these survivors are arty types – musicians, sculptors, dancers, writers, painters. Most of them are well past their primes but still trying to create art on a regular basis. Many of them are eccentric, but most all have interesting life stories which revolve around the Chelsea.

Their love for the place is obvious and their willingness to deal with many hardships to keep their own little spot in the world is touching. Dreaming Walls tells their story and tells it well. However, I wish it told more of the story of the Chelsea itself. That is an even more fascinating narrative.

Jay S. Jacobs

#Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel #2022 #Movie Reviews #Merle Lister Levine #Jay S. Jacobs

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Do You Know Where Your Next Sale Is Coming From?

As a speaker, author, and coach, Chris George assists self-employed professionals obtain the success they've been striving for.

His highly-acclaimed More Clients More Gains Book offers business people around the world the chance to regularly attract not only more clients but especially more profitable clients. It offers benefits from noted professionals, including Ivan Misner, William Burg, Debbie Allen, Susan Roane, Scott Ginsberg, and others.

Today's sale, this month's target, your annually quota -- here is the sport of one's life. Why, because you're only as good as your last accomplishment. In the event that you win, you're acknowledged and rewarded. If you eliminate, you spend a toll no matter how bulletproof the excuse.

More to the point, it holds you to the next period -- your new position, your new income, your new office, your new job. So what are you currently performing to prepare for the game of your daily life? Income managers, what have you been doing to ready your group? They are your only sport around right now?

Today let's reveal for a second. Are you currently pleased along with your previous shows? If not, you've got to obtain help. If you're a revenue manager, are you currently pleased with yesteryear shows of one's sales group? Or even, you've got to step-up -- give help and get help to enhance your administration skills.

This really is playoff season. You think the qualified players who built the playoffs are working-out? You think the coaches are experiencing strategy sessions, picture evaluations, and training exercises to simulate what plays one other team can run? Do you think the coaches are conferring together and then coaching the people? You think you will find staff methods? Obviously there are. This next sport is very important -- the game of the lives. Should they gain, they move on. If they lose, they are out, and tomorrow could suggest the coaches and people are cut. next sale

Revenue is the same. Every sport is such as the playoffs. Whenever you win, you're a hero. Once you lose, the chatter of blame starts. You can find number adequate excuses for losing. Positive, the bosses appear to understand, but behind you, they are high in uncertainty and protecting their very own tails with talk of the method that you attached up.

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A hiatus of disinterest | Burroughs meet Beckett (again)

I recall a personal visit to Beckett. John Calder, my publisher and Beckett’s, was the intermediary for a short, not more than half an hour audience. This was in Berlin. Beckett was there directing one of his new plays. Allen Ginsberg, Susan Sontag and myself were there for a reading. Also present in the visiting party were Fred Jordan and Professor Hoellerer, a professor of English literature at…

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uomo-accattivante · 3 years

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Il materiale di origine: @mauryginsberg (Instagram) / “Working with this brilliant crew today ! #thankful #blessed #powerbeards”

#oscar isaac #jonathan #scenes from a marriage #behind the scenes #tovah feldshuh #maury ginsberg #susan pourfar #on the set #instagram

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nickthebookworm · 3 years

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Today I got my order from The Bookish Type, an independent queer bookshop I've been dying to go to since it opened. Unfortunately, due to covid, I haven't been able to visit. Fortunately, however, I was able to order online!

At this point though, I'm starting to wonder if I shouldn't have my bank card confiscated!

I just signed up for a book subscription with A Box of Stories because they have a student discount and a rewards scheme! I was relatively sensible about it though and set my subscription for every three months instead of monthly...

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Hunter S. Thompson on his typewriter at Esalen, 1961. "...People came from all over California, often staying for free in the wooden cabins that line the back of the 120-acre campus. Teachers lived at Esalen for weeks, sometimes for months or years, like Susan Sontag, Timothy Leary, Hunter S. Thompson, and Aldous Huxley. Robert Rauschenberg conducted seminars on art. Joan Baez taught a course called “The New Folk Music.” Ida Rolf invented a “reorganizing” form of massage called rolfing. Allen Ginsberg taught a poetry workshop. Alan Watts presided over group LSD trips. Henry Miller taught writing courses and famously sunbathed naked on the beach..." https://www.instagram.com/p/CMSlOBUg3zz/?igshid=1xc49fqffn0pg

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literarypilgrim · 3 years

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Read Like a Gilmore

All 339 Books Referenced In “Gilmore Girls”

Not my original list, but thought it’d be fun to go through and see which one’s I’ve actually read :P If it’s in bold, I’ve got it, and if it’s struck through, I’ve read it. I’ve put a ‘read more’ because it ended up being an insanely long post, and I’m now very sad at how many of these I haven’t read. (I’ve spaced them into groups of ten to make it easier to read)

1. 1984 by George Orwell 2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll 4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser 6. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt 7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy 8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 9. The Archidamian War by Donald Kagan 10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James

11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu 12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 13. Atonement by Ian McEwan 14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy Grealy 15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin 16. Babe by Dick King-Smith 17. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi 18. Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie 19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett 20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 21. Beloved by Toni Morrison 22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Seamus Heaney 23. The Bhagava Gita 24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews by Peter Duffy 25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by Elizabeth Wurtzel 26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays by Mary McCarthy 27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali 29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner 30. Candide by Voltaire 31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer 32. Carrie by Stephen King 33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger 35. Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White 36. The Children’s Hour by Lillian Hellman 37. Christine by Stephen King 38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens 39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G. Wodehouse 41. The Collected Stories by Eudora Welty 42. A Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell 44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton 45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker 46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole 47. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas 48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac 49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 50. The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber 51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller 52. Cujo by Stephen King 53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon 54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende 55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac Rubin M.D 56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens 57. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown 58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol 59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller 61. Deenie by Judy Blume 62. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson 63. The Dirt: Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx 64. The Divine Comedy by Dante 65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells 66. Don Quixote by Cervantes 67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv 68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen Cook 71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe 72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters by Mark Dunn 73. Eloise by Kay Thompson 74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger 75. Emma by Jane Austen 76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo 77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy Detective by Donald J. Sobol 78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton 79. Ethics by Spinoza 80. Europe through the Back Door, 2003 by Rick Steves

81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende 82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer 83. Extravagance by Gary Krist 84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore 86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan 87. Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World by Greg Critser 88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson 89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien 90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein 91. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom 92. Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce 93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald 94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes 95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem 96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand 97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger 99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers 100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut 101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler 102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our 43rd President by Jacob Weisberg 103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner 104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen 105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels 106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario Puzo 107. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy 108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by Alvin Granowsky 109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell 110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford

111. The Gospel According to Judy Bloom 112. The Graduate by Charles Webb 113. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck 114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 115. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens 116. The Group by Mary McCarthy 117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare 118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling 119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling 120. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers 121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry 123. Henry IV, part I by William Shakespeare 124. Henry IV, part II by William Shakespeare 125. Henry V by William Shakespeare 126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby 127. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon 128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David Sedaris 129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence Lipton 130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III 131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende 132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie Orringer 133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss 134. How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland 135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg 136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo 137. The Iliad by Homer 138. I’m With the Band by Pamela des Barres 139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote 140. Inferno by Dante

141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee 142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy 143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham Clinton 144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte 145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 146. Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare 147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain 148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair 149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony Vigorito 150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar by Robert Alexander 151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain 152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini 153. Lady Chatterleys’ Lover by D. H. Lawrence 154. The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000 by Gore Vidal 155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by Steven Pressfield 157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke 159. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken 160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel

161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine Butler Hathaway 163. The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen 164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott 165. Living History by Hillary Rodham Clinton 166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding 167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by Shirley Jackson 168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold 169. The Love Story by Erich Segal 170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare 171. Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert 172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies 173. Marathon Man by William Goldman 174. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov 175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir 176. Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman 177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris 178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith Ortiz Cofer 179. Mencken’s Chrestomathy by H. R. Mencken 180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare 181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides 183. The Miracle Worker by William Gibson 184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville 185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate Music Companion by Jim Irvin 186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart Chatfield Taylor 187. A Monetary History of the United States by Milton Friedman 188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret 189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars 190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway

191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf 192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall 193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre and It’s Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh 194. My Life as Author and Editor by H. R. Mencken 195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with the Guru by Tim Guest 196. Myra Waldo’s Travel and Motoring Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo 197. My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult 198. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer 199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri 201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin 202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen 203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson 204. The New Way Things Work by David Macaulay 205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich 206. Night by Elie Wiesel 207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen 208. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P. McGowan 209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn, Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to be Born by Dawn Powell 210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles Bukowski

211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (will NEVER read again) 212. Old School by Tobias Wolff 213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac 214. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey 215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of a Writing Life by Amy Tan 217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster 218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood 219. Othello by Shakespeare 220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War by Donald Kagan 222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson 223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton 224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster 225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition by Donald Kagan 226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky 227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious 228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna Huffington 230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi 231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain 232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick Hornby 233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker 234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich Nietzche 235. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill by Ron Suskind 236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 237. Property by Valerie Martin 238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon 239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw 240. Quattrocento by James Mckean

241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell Hall 242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers 243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 244. The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham 245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi 246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin 248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant 249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia Holman 250. The Return of the King by J. R. R. Tolkien 251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton 252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King 253. Robert’s Rules of Order by Henry Robert 254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton 255. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 256. A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf 257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster 258. Rosemary’s Baby by Ira Levin 259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003 Edition 260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi 261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner 262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford 263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by Henry James 264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L. Baum 265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by Laura Hillenbrand 267. The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir 268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd 269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette by Judith Thurman 270. Selected Hotels of Europe

271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell: 1913-1965 by Dawn Powell 272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen 273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles 274. Several Biographies of Winston Churchill 275. Sexus by Henry Miller 276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon 277. Shane by Jack Shaefer 278. The Shining by Stephen King 279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse 280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton 281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt Vonnegut 282. Small Island by Andrea Levy 283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway 284. Snow White and Rose Red by Grimm Brothers 285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore 286. The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht 287. Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos 288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker 289. Songbook by Nick Hornby 290. The Sonnets by William Shakespeare 291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 292. Sophie’s Choice by William Styron 293. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner 294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov 295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller 297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by Tennessee Williams 298. Stuart Little by E. B. White 299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway 300. Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

301. Swimming with Giants: My Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and Seals by Anne Collett 302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber 303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens 304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald 305. Term of Endearment by Larry McMurtry 306. Time and Again by Jack Finney 307. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger 308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway 309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee 310. The Tragedy of Richard III by William Shakespeare 311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith 312. The Trial by Franz Kafka 313. The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by Elisabeth Robinson 314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann Patchett 315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 316. Ulysses by James Joyce 317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath 318. Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe 319. Unless by Carol Shields 320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip Meyers 322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray 323. Velvet Underground’s The Velvet Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and a Third series) by Joe Harvard 324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett 326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau 327. Walt Disney’s Bambi by Felix Salten 328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 329. We Owe You Nothing – Punk Planet: The Collected Interviews edited by Daniel Sinker 330. What Colour is Your Parachute? 2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles 331. What Happened to Baby Jane by Henry Farrell 332. When the Emperor Was Divine by Julie Otsuka 333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson 334. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Edward Albee 335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire 336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum 337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte 338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 339. The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

#books in Gilmore Girls #reading list #booklr #have you read?

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my 2020 books (final count)

i know there’s a week left but i’m doing it now bc idgaf

2020 reading goal: 70 books

final count: 84 books

why be happy when you could be normal - jeanette winterson

educated - tara westover

astragal - albertine sarrazin

the importance of music to girls - lavinia greenlaw

a room of one’s own - virginia woolf

ariel - sylvia plath

find me - andre aciman

men explain things to me - rebecca solnit

pennies for hitler - jackie french

south and west: from a notebook - joan didion

girl, interrupted - susanna kaysen

junky - william s. burroughs

chelsea girls - eileen myles

lighthousekeeping - jeanette winterson

new york city in 1979 - kathy acker

the colour purple - alice walker

teaching my mother how to give birth - warsan shire

diving into the wreck - adrienne rich

pamper me to hell and back - hera lindsay bird

the hours - michael cunningham

the road - cormac mccarthy

the vagina monologues - eve ensler

the white album - joan didion

slouching towards bethlehem - joan didion

lunch poems - frank o’hara

a thousand mornings - mary oliver

draft no. 4: on the writing process - john mcphee

peter pan - j.m. barrie

can everyone please calm down? - mae martin

mr salary - sally rooney

breakfast at tiffany’s - truman capote

to kill a mockingbird - harper lee

woolgathering - patti smith

the coral sea - patti smith

just kids - patti smith

little women - louisa may alcott

the secret history - donna tartt

the boy who followed his father into auschwitz - jeremy dronfield

the place on dalhousie - melina marchetta

harry potter and the philosopher’s stone - j.k. rowling

the cement garden - ian mcewan

paula - isabel allende

the book of dirt - bram presser

my purple scented novel - ian mcewan

the agonist - shastra deo

the truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off! - gloria steinem

art objects: essays on ecstasy and effrontery - jeanette winterson

the trauma cleaner - sarah krasnostein

mrs dalloway - virginia woolf

jacob’s room - virginia woolf

the collected short stories - virginia woolf

remarkably jane: notable quotations on jane austen - jennifer adams

the death of noah glass - gail jones

click here for what we do - pam brown

stories of perth - alice grundy

too much lip - melissa lucashenko

the erratics - vicki laveau-harvie

on photography - susan sontag

no friend but the mountains: writing from manus prison - behrouz boochani

harry potter and the chamber of secrets - j.k. rowling

courage calls to courage everywhere - jeanette winterson

harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban - j.k. rowling

boy swallows universe - trent dalton

harry potter and the goblet of fire - j.k. rowling

the waves - virginia woolf

the lost child - caryl phillips

harry potter and the order of the phoenix - j.k. rowling

howl, kaddish and other poems - allen ginsberg

harry potter and the half-blood prince - j.k. rowling

between the acts - virginia woolf

the life to come - michelle de kretser

the tales of beedle the bard - j.k. rowling

harry potter and the deathly hallows - j.k. rowling

rebecca - daphne du maurier

books v cigarettes - george orwell

honeybee - craig silvey

an unquiet mind: a memoir of moods and madness - kay redfield jamison

the tattooist of auschwitz - heather morris

the graveyard book - neil gaiman

cilka’s journey - heather morris

the dark room - rachel seiffert

the seven husbands of evelyn hugo - taylor jenkins reid

currently reading:

sense and sensibility - jane austen

when the moon is low - nadia hashimi

selected poems - christina rosetti

#pretty proud of this one #fi's ramblings #books #literature #reading list #goodreads #joan didion #jeanette winterson #patti smith #virginia woolf #classic literature #literatureedit #bookedit

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2020 in books

Twenty-twenty... a year full of tragedy and wreckage and surprisingly pleasant moments. Really makes you appreciate the present.

No one asked for this list, but this is what I read this year. Let me know if you’re curious about any of them and would like to know my opinion. Happy New Year, everyone. May this new year bring success, health and joy.

January - two books:

“The Aleph and Other Stories” by Jorge Luis Borges

“The Sappho History” by Margaret Reynolds

February - four books:

“Dreamers” by Yuyi Morales

“With a Little Help from My Friends” by John Lennon

“The Well of Loneliness” by Radclyffe Hall

“On Being Different: What It Means to Be a Homosexual” by Merle Miller

March - four books:

“Geopolitics” by Saul Bernard Cohen

“The Vegetarian” by Han Kang

“The Love and Lies of Rukhsana Ali” by Sabina Khan

“Catch and Kill” by Ronan Farrow

April - two books:

“Carry On” by Rainbow Rowell

“Wayward Son” by Rainbow Rowell

May - twenty-one books:

“Reflection” by Elizabeth Lim

“Venus in Retrograde” by Susan Lilley

“Cults Uncovered” by Emily G. Thompson

“Loki: The God Who Fell to Earth” by Daniel Kibblesmith

“Stories” by Katherine Mansfield

“The Secret History” by Donna Tartt

“The Silence of the Girls” by Pat Barker

“Unsolved Murders” by Emily G. Thompson

“Pan’s Labyrinth” by Guillermo del Toro

“Daytripper 1-10″ by Fabio Moon

“Happy and You Know It” by Laura Hankin

“Latin American Folktales” by John Bierhorst

June - nine books:

“Gender” by Meg-John Barker

“The Red Pyramid” by Rick Riordan

“The Lightning Thief” by Rick Riordan

“The Sea of Monsters” by Rick Riordan

“The Titan’s Curse” by Rick Riordan

“The Stockholm Octavo” by Karen Engelmann

“Poems” by Sappho

“The Library Book” by Susan Orlean

“The Manson Women and Me” by Nikki Meredith

July - five books:

“The New York Times Book of Crime” by Kevin Flynn

“Essential Thor, Vol. 3″ by Stan Lee

“The Paris Hours” by Alex George

“Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?” by Jeanette Winterson

“Erotic Poems” by E.E. Cummings

August - seven books:

“Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit” by Jeanette Winterson

“Crier’s War” by Nina Varela

“Autobiography in Red” by Anne Carson

“The Beauty in Breaking” by Michele Harper

“Sex and Lies” by Leila Slimani

“Black Chalk” by Christopher J. Yates

“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” by Caitlin Doughty

September - five books:

“I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up” by Kodama Naoko

“Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 1″ by Naoko Takeuchi

“Gold Dust Woman” by Stephen Davis

“Hurricane Child” by Kacen Callender

“Coraline” by Neil Gaiman

October - six books:

“Mythology” by Edith Hamilton

“The Pagan Book of Living and Dying” by Starhawk

“The Night of the Gun” by David Carr

“Interview with the Vampire” by Anne Rice

“Restaurant to Another World Vol. 1″ by Junpei Inuzuka

“Of Light and Darkness” by Shayne Leighton

November - six books:

“Beneath a Ruthless Sun” by Gilbert King

“Frankissstein” by Jeanette Winterson

“A Burning” by Megha Majumdar

“Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy” by Vikki Bramshaw

“Norma Jean Baker of Troy” by Anne Carson

“In the Dream House” by Carmen Maria Machado

December - six books:

“The Virgin Suicides” by Jeffrey Eugenides

“The Penguin Book of Mermaids” by Cristina Bacchilega

“Thirst” by Mary Oliver

“Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon #2” by Naoki Takeuchi

“Dance in Classical Greece” by Alkis Raftis

“Howl and Other Poems” by Allen Ginsberg

#dark academia #academia #light academia #classic art #art #dark academia aesthetic #dark #book #books #aesthetic #reading #2020 #what i read

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—Victor Bockris, With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker

Now here is a good Little Free Library find—a waterlogged copy of book I didn’t even know existed, which I grabbed to peruse before teaching some Beat anthology pieces in my Contemporary American Literature class and plan to replace when I’m done. (I recorded the Beat lecture this week—I couldn’t get through it without making fun of those guys, as you’ll hear in two weeks or so.) Above is Burroughs scandalizing Tennessee Williams with Crowley’s immoralist occult anarchism.

This book was brought out by a mainstream publisher in its time, hard to imagine nowadays: even supposing it made it through editorial, the staff would revolt at the passage where Burroughs says he likes “young boys” who are “between fourteen and twenty-five,” where Ginsberg laments his failure to pick up a 15-year-old, where Burroughs explains sex tourism’s convenience with the blasé line, “The boys are poor,” or even the part where Susan Sontag tries to explain the hardships of womanhood to him, and he simply replies, “It’s hard to draw breath on this bloody planet” (this is following a passage where he explains his belief that women are biologically obsolete). No, the Slack channel at Hatchette or wherever would not be having this, despite the relative obsequiousness shown throughout the book to Burroughs by Sontag, Debbie Harry, and Patti Smith.

I went to Patti Smith’s Instagram the other day and saw pictures of Burroughs and Genet next to pictures of Kamala Harris and Greta Thunberg. This really shouldn’t be possible, and, whichever pair you prefer, should challenge the idea that a cultural politics is any politics at all. (Why does authority secretly like cultural radicalism so much? Was Crowley an intelligence agent? Say, what is my connection to Michael Aquino?) I sort of like Burroughs in spite of myself or in spite of my broader tastes, as I don’t like Ginsberg or Kerouac. I don’t lead an adventurous life, so I treasure the few events that make me sound at all glamorous, and I do remember reading Exterminator! at night in a hotel in a red-light district off La Rambla and then the next day on the beach under Colón’s monitory seaward finger. This was 2004. In 2007 I saw Patti Smith live; she sang a song she couldn’t sing today—you’ll probably know the one. My copy of With William Burroughs has this inscription on the inside front cover:

1997 was another age altogether, when one wouldn’t think twice of flirting with Izabela by passing on the table-talk of a misogynistic pederastic junkie whose books don’t make any sense. Why were we so wicked and reckless in that age before Greta came to inquire how we dared? As the song says—the song that, a few years earlier, in its smooth cover version, introduced the normie suburbanite (me, I mean, but not only me) to the words of Patti Smith—“Because the night...”

#william s. burroughs #patti smith #tennessee williams #american literature #beat literature #literature

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2021年7月17日

【新入荷・新本】

Dominique Nabokov New York Living Rooms, Apartamento, 2021

Hardcover. 116 pages. 240 x 285 mm. Color. 2021.

価格：7,150円（税込）

アメリカとフランスを拠点に活動するフォトグラファー、ドミニク・ナバコフ（Dominique Nabokov）の作品集。本作は、作者による「LIVING ROOMS」シリーズ三部作の第一弾として、アメリカの出版社「ABRAMS」が1998年に初版を刊行。20年以上の時を経て、今回復刻版として「APARTAMENTO」より再版された。1995年に「New Yorker」誌にフォトエッセイとして掲載されていた本シリーズは、作家のスーザン・ソンタグ（Susan Sontag）、小説家のノーマン・メイラー（Norman Mailer）、アーティストのルイーズ・ブルジョワ（Louise Bourgeois）やフランチェスコ・クレメンテ.（Francesco Clemente）、詩人のアレン・ギンズバーグ（Allen Ginsberg）、小説家でありエッセイストのジョーン・ディディオン（Joan Didion）など、ニューヨーカーの中でも伝説的であると言える面々の居住空間を、親密さも交えながらありのままの形で写し出している。特段手を加えず演出も足さないこの写真を作者はインテリア「ポートレイト」と呼ぶ。贅沢で派手な部屋もあれば、必要最低限のものしか置かれていない部屋もある。作者はのぞき見が大好きな仲間たちのためにまずはそのすべてをシンプルにそのまま記録し、あとは我々にその解釈を委ねた。長らく絶版となっていた本作は、作者によって撮影されたオリジナルのポラロイド写真と、初版にも掲載されていたイギリス人詩人のジェームズ・フェントン（James Fenton）による序文を収録、当時のニューヨークの一時代を鮮やかに蘇らせている。本書に続き、今後『PARIS LIVING ROOMS』（2002, ASSOULINE）、『BERLIN LIVING ROOMS』（2019, APARTAMENTO）それぞれの復刊が予定されている。

（twelvebooksによる本書紹介文）

New York Living Rooms is the first instalment in Dominique Nabokov’s holy trinity of interior photography works, re-issued by Apartamento Publishing more than two decades after it was first published in 1998. Originally commissioned as a photo essay for the New Yorker in 1995, it offers a frank and intimate study of the interior living spaces of some of the city’s most fabled cultural figures, including Susan Sontag, Norman Mailer, Louise Bourgeois, Francesco Clemente, Allen Ginsberg, and Joan Didion. With nothing added and nothing altered, Nabokov calls these images her interior ‘portraits’. Some spaces are indulgent and ostentatious, others shelter the bare necessities, but Nabokov simply records them all for her fellow voyeurs and leaves us to decipher the rest. Long out of print, this updated edition brings back to life an era of New York City history, seen through Nabokov’s original Polaroid photos and the original introduction by English poet James Fenton. It also sets the stage for the following editions in Paris and Berlin, which Apartamento will be re-issuing later in 2021.

https://www.apartamentomagazine.com/

#Dominique Nabokov #New York Living Rooms #Apartamento

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