1950s

In November of 1958, John Steinbeck received a letter from his eldest son, Thom, who was attending boarding school. In...

J.D. Salinger . " I read a lot of classical books, like The Return of the Native and all, and...

Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable, 1953 Samuel Beckett outside a Parisian café, 1988 "hat’s what I feel, an outside...

Karl Hofer: Boxer, 1940 . “One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and...

Steve Schapiro Samuel Beckett Looking at Parrot, New York, 1964 . "You're on earth. There's no cure for that." Samuel Beckett, Endgame,...

Ace in the Hole AKA The Big Carnival, Billy Wilder (1951) Cinematography: Charles Lang Stars: Kirk Douglas, Jan Sterling, Robert...

Kalman Szollosy, 1935 “They made love in the dark by feel, without seeing each other. Is there another love than...

Daniel Zender “Beware of the night, child. All cats are black in the dark.” Jean Genet, The Blacks, 1959 Also:...

Ernst Schneidegger, Joan Miro collecting flotsam at the beach of Barcelonetta which he used as inspiration for his work, 1955 . "The...

Jean Stein: Some people say they can't understand your writing, even after they read it two or three times. What...