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theparisreview:

Sylvia Plath with her mother and brother. The poet was born on this day eighty years ago.

explore-blog:

She told me it was a girl, and so I turned my head away and wept. ‘All right,’ I said, ‘I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.’

What Sylvia Plath underlined in her copy of The Great Gatsby. For an equally poetic complement, see 18-year-old Plath on loving everybody and living with curiosity.

(Source: , via fuckyeahmanuscripts)

theparisreview:

A page from a timeline, with notes and Post-it notes, that Jonathan Lethem had pinned up over his desk while working on The Fortress of Solitude.

theparisreview:

An original ad for The Great Gatsby, found in a 1925 issue of The Princetonian. (via The Literary Man)

fuckyeahmanuscripts:

William Butler Yeats

(Source: pleasurezine)

beatonna:

I love reading bad reviews of classic books on Amazon and Goodreads

heyoscarwilde:

I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.

Fantastic Mr. Fox by Cristian Escobar :: via flickr.com