Upton Sinclair was born on 20 September 1878. Let’s celebrate his birthday by enjoying this poster from the 1914 film adaptation of his great novel, The Jungle:
Film Poster for The Jungle, 1914
…in a chalk portrait by their brother/son, Dante Gabriel Rossetti:
Christina Rossetti and Her Mother Frances by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1877
“The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.”-Katherine Mansfield
J is for Joyce, James:
James Joyce Ulysses Print by Standard Designs. $24.39
“I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.”-Julien Green
“My library is an archive of longings.”-Susan Sontag
Antonin Artaud was born on 4 September 1896. Here he is at 30, looking striking:
Antonin Artaud, 1926
“The art of writing is the attempt to contain the teeming black scrawl which everywhere threatens to gain the upper hand, in the interest of maintaining a halfway functional personality.”-W.G. Sebald, A Place in the Country (translation by Jo Catling)
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington was born on 1 September 1789:
Marguerite, Countess of Blessington by Thomas Lawrence, 1822
Ray Bradbury Quote
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