Macro Literature

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On this day (4 June) in 1940, 22-year-old Carson McCullers’ first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was published. The novel, about misfits in a Georgia mill town, is an instant success.

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Literary history that happened on 4 June

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Giveaw@y: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 31 May 2026. Good luck!

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Congratulations to @crabbybun, our randomly-selected winner for this giveaw@y! These books will be on the way to her shortly.

Thank you to everyone who participated! We'll kick off a new giveaw@y soon. :)

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Open up Gail Crowther's new bestseller Marilyn and Her Books (now available in the U.S.) and the first thing you'll see are some of the editions Marilyn owned. I was thrilled to see she had a penchant for my beloved Modern Library books, which I'm used to thinking of as "vintage," but they were contemporary for her. And I actually own most of the editions she had.

I've been reading the book (I'm about a third of the way through), and it's beautifully written and absolutely fascinating. This is a perfect read for ALL book lovers, not just those who appreciate Marilyn Monroe. It speaks to us as readers, delving into things like: what the books we own and read say about us (as well as the books we don't read); shelf-snooping--something we're all guilty of; books we read vs. books we skim; books we bought versus books we received as gifts; and so much more.

I'd say it's the best book about books/reading since Maureen Corrigan's So We Read On (about The Great Gatsby), but Crowther's book is better.

Are you thinking of reading it?

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I'm definitely thinking of reading this! While I don't know much about Marilyn Monroe, the one thing I do know about her is how much she loved to read and that she had a LOT of books! So when I heard this was coming out, I was excited to be able to read more about her and to learn more about her love of reading and books!

Just checked out the audiobook for it from my local library, so I'll be able to start listening to in on my commute to and from work. Excited to learn more about a fellow bookwork!

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430 Books Found In Marilyn Monroe's Library - BOOKGLOW

Marilyn Monroe loved to read, according to open-culture.org. Check out the 430 books that were found in Marilyn Monroe's personal library. How many have you read?

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Iconic. And she’s not so bad herself.

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“On nights when I’ve got nothing else to do I go to the Pickwick bookstore on Hollywood Boulevard, and I just open books at random – or when I come to a page or a paragraph I like, I buy that book.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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Open up Gail Crowther's new bestseller Marilyn and Her Books (now available in the U.S.) and the first thing you'll see are some of the editions Marilyn owned. I was thrilled to see she had a penchant for my beloved Modern Library books, which I'm used to thinking of as "vintage," but they were contemporary for her. And I actually own most of the editions she had.

I've been reading the book (I'm about a third of the way through), and it's beautifully written and absolutely fascinating. This is a perfect read for ALL book lovers, not just those who appreciate Marilyn Monroe. It speaks to us as readers, delving into things like: what the books we own and read say about us (as well as the books we don't read); shelf-snooping--something we're all guilty of; books we read vs. books we skim; books we bought versus books we received as gifts; and so much more.

I'd say it's the best book about books/reading since Maureen Corrigan's So We Read On (about The Great Gatsby), but Crowther's book is better.

Are you thinking of reading it?

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Marilyn Monroe’s apartment was full of books

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Happy 100th birthday to Marilyn Monroe.

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Literary history that happened on 1 June

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Quick tip: Don’t highlight every line of a block of sentences. Outline them instead.

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“I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don’t believe I deserved my friends.”

— Walt Whitman

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