La Magia De La Lectura (ilustración De Isabella Kung)

Look. I know a slightly chewed up flower isn’t quite on par with those brandy barrels alpine rescue dogs purportedly have, but someone might need an emergency flower or something. It could happen.

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Andy Warhol

From The Russian Story Book, 1916 by Frank Cheyne Papé (English, 1878–1972)

pop art of james dean

photo by phil stern

“Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can’t help but move to it. That’s what happens to me. I can’t help it.’” - Elvis Presley

Lectora suspicaz (ilustración de Benjamin Lacombe)

The Joy of a Hell of a Life

The joy of life (1906), Henri Matisse / Hell of a Life, Kanye West

Mujer, lectora… (ilustración de Cecilia Cavallini)

In 1882, Oscar Wilde went on a lecture tour of the United States. When he was entering America, the Customs officer asked him: ‘Do you have anything to declare?’ Wilde answered: ‘I have nothing to declare but my genius.’ When he left America, he said: ‘I have civilised America.’

Los camaradas

10 Historic Literary Cliques

A political cartoon scrawled with the words “A typical scene at the Dill Pickle Club,” a Chicago nightclub that hosted writers like Upton Sinclair and Emma Goldman (Credit: Image from Frontier to Heartland)

Cliques aren’t solely for sorting the jocks from the goths from the preps from the skaters. Here are 10 literary cliques — united by location, identity or politics — that helped shape American writing in the 20th century.

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