Gaddis's Ghostcoat

I am the ghost of William Gaddis's trenchcoat.

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@BrightlyMargot No that’s Joan Didion.

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Joan Didion pushes baby daughter Quintana Roo Dunne in a pram. John Gregory Dunne lends a hand. (Photograph circa 1968.)

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Rare picture of Alan Moore.

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In a bombshell new interview, American Literary Genius Ben Lerner explains why he is America's smartest boy.

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@HestarKaty That is Melville. I find it in the Library of Congress the other week.

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An incredibly rare photograph of a young Herman Melville immersed in research (pretending to be a boat). Via the Library of Congress.

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Someone had to do this.

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Author Tobias Wolf, of the famous memoir "This Boy's Life," poses casually before attending a reading at the Iowa Writers Workshop.

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A photographer caught a rare moment of Cormac McCarthy sharing a moment with his nephew Phil.

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A rare peak at JG Ballard's writing studio, circa 1994.

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@CorrasJudy30732 That is Joan Didion.

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This is where they keep all the cars used in making J.G. Ballard's novel "Crash."

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Here is the writing desk of Michel Houellebecq, the "enfant terrible" of French literature.

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Norman Mailer at his writing desk. 1963.

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When Papa László is just a little disappointed that you were late to the last Small Group Meeting for the Sect.

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Rare photograph of Thomas Pynchon signing his latest novel “Shadow Ticker”

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I think it is supposed to be a “joke”..but this s-dog is actually a young David Forster Wallace in disguise (sunglasses ‘). He was doing research for an essay about television ‘

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S-Dog

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A rare picture of Thomas Pynchon working on an early draft of "Against the Days." He was doing research in an experimental dirigible and the altitude required a special oxygen helmet..

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A leaked photograph of Thomas Pynchon's cameo in the new Paul Thomas Anderson film "One Battle After Another." The film is based on Pynchon's beloved novel "Vineland."

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Joan Didion, LA, 1966