Writers; Fuck Yeah

libraryland:

literarylovers:

Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically.

          -Vladimir Nabokov

Shootin’ pool with ol’ Mark Twain. 

Jean Cocteau

hundredmillionothers:

Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Satre and Che Guevara

hundredmillionothers:

Kurt Vonnegut with his family.

Photograph taken by Allen Ginsberg.

mrdankelly:

William S. Burroughs blows out the candles on his birthday cake, to the delight of some fucking guy (later note: hold on, that might be Terry Southern..

LIFE: William Burroughs - Hosted by Google

Burroughs is on Tumblr more than Zooey Deschanel

The Esquire cover

More from the Chicago 8 trial; Genet and Burroughs

Gean Genet, Allen Ginsberg, Chicago, August 1968. Esquire Magazine had commissioned Genet, Ginsberg, Terry Southern and Burroughs to write a story on the convention, Genet however had to sneak into the country from Canada because of his prior ‘criminal’ record in France.

Ginsberg also testified in the Chicago 8 trial