Writers — Talia Neffson

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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

V. Penelope Pelizzon

Katherine Anne Porter

Matthew Buckley Smith

Elizabeth Taylor

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Dorothy Whipple

Kirsten Valdez Quade

Katherine Hollander

Dorothy B. Hughes

Matthew Lansburgh

Rosamond Lehmann

Gwendolyn Brooks

Lucille Clifton

John Freeman Gill

Natalia Ginzburg

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

Photograph of a wall behind a desk with two framed letters, one from Sylvia Townsend Warner and one from Katherine Anne Porter