Background banner image of a long wall at the doria pamphilj gallery, showing a display of renaissance busts and statues and paintings, including works by Caravaggio.
Black typescript on blue paper, from a 1957 letter of Katherine Anne Porter to poet Marianne Moore, reading: "Blessed is the author/who favors what the supercilious do not favor—/who will not comply, Blessed, the unaccommodating"

Katherine Anne Porter, from a Letter to Marianne Moore, January 1, 1957 The Katherine Anne Porter Correspondence collection, Archives at the University of Maryland

Ruth Park

Joanna Pearson

V. Penelope Pelizzon

Katherine Anne Porter

Henry Shapiro

Matthew Buckley Smith

Rebekah Smith

A.E. Stallings

Timothy Steele

Jackie Stowers

Elizabeth Taylor

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Rebecca West

Dorothy Whipple

Kirsten Valdez Quade

David Yezzi

Katherine Hollander

Dorothy B. Hughes

Claire Keegan

Matthew Lansburgh

Rosamond Lehmann

Janet Lewis

Javier Marías

Joshua Mehigan

Mary Meriam

Cookie Mueller

Shane McCrae

Leslie Monsour

Gerald Murnane

Naeem Murr

Iris Origo

Lori Ostlund

Alice Allan

Pat Barker

Lucia Berlin

Gwendolyn Brooks

John Canaday

Lucille Clifton

Barbara Comyns

Morri Creech

Averill Curdy

Rachel Cusk

Dick Davis

James Fenton

John Freeman Gill

Natalia Ginzburg

George Green

Patricia Highsmith

Book cover of "Pale Horse, Pale Rider" by Katherine Anne Porter
Image of book cover of Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, collected stories of Cookie Mueller
Image of the cover of The Element of Lavishness, the letters of Sylvia Towensend Warner and William Maxwell 1938-1978, edited by Michael Steinman
Book cover of Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead, by Barbara Comyns
Image of the cover of Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, by Elizabeth Taylor
Image of the book cover of The Harp in the South by Ruth Park
Image of the book cover of Ride the Pink Horse, by Dorothy B. Hughes
Image of the cover of My German Dictionary, poetry by Katherine Hollander
Book cover of Accepting the Disaster, poems by Joshua Mehigan
Image of the book cover of A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye, poems by V. Penelope Pelizzon

Some Bookstores I Love

Logo for Persephone Books Publisher & Bookseller, white text on a gray background with an illustration of greek goddess in profile looking at a scroll
Logo of Book Culture, white letters and flowers on a blue background
Strand bookstore logo with the slogan New York City, Strand, 19 Miles of Books
Logo of Books of Wonder bookstore, showing a black and white illustration of an assortment of fairytale characters sitting and reading in profile
Logo of Unnameable Books on a white background
Logo of Lofty Pigeon Books showing a color illustration of pigeon wearing glasses standing on top of a pile of books
Photograph of a wall behind a desk with two framed letters, one from Sylvia Townsend Warner and one from Katherine Anne Porter