#johnhorneburns

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John Horne Burns wrote three books from 1945-1952 (ish), drank, drank and drank some more until all his promise had faded in the Tuscan summer (was it suicide? Accident? Murder? Or the cerbal hemorrage like the authorities said? Your guess is as good as anybody’s) and, worst, still he was forgotten. And yet that one of those books, The Gallery, was as perfect and sublime as American literature can be. (I already reviewed The Gallery here, scroll down). : Now, with this account, John Horne Burns life (or Jack as I’ve started to think of him cordially in my mind) can step back into the light where he belongs. Blessings to @nyrbooks for reissuing The Gallery for writers like me to find and David Margolick for writing this biography! : I read this book pump me up for grad school, weirdly.📖 (Don’t write & drink is the moral to this and many other stories). : #johnhorneburns #thegallery #twentiethcenturywriters #🥀 #darkacademia #richardpapen #classiclit #classicliterature #literary #literarycommunity #bookstagram #lightacademia #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram #teachergoth #blackwritersofinstagram #weirdblackgirl #protectweirdblackgirlsatallcosts #deadauthors #romanticacademia #biblophile #midwesterngothic #gothicacademia #asecondofwhimsy #romanticism #booksbooksbooks #newbookstagrammer #deadpoetssociety #forgottenwriters https://www.instagram.com/p/CNjHmcyh1Im/?igshid=da5oustc9so5

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SUNDAY BOOK RECOMMENDATION 🥃 “I’m asking you, Esther, take a good look at all these mad people. For they are mad. And consider the subtle thread that brings them all together here. Not so subtle as that either, Esther, since their personalities are so deeply rooted in it. What an odd force to unite so many varied personalities! Something they all want....and when they’ve had it, their reactions will be different. Some will feel themselves defiled. Others will want another try at it. Others will feel that they haven’t found what they were looking for and will be back here tomorrow night.” 🥃 John Horne Burns’ story is one of those famous ruined-talent stories but, thankfully, before all that misery he wrote The Gallery. This book is my favorite WWII era novel and just one of my TOP FIVE books I’ve ever read. I finished this book two years ago on Christmas Eve and I have no idea why because this book is pitch dark but wonderfully rendered work that captures the muddled feelings of rage, cynicism and desperation of soldiers and civilians alike. I think I’ve been thinking of this book recently because I’m slowly working my way through my current WWII read (check the current read highlight) or maybe because it was Veterans Day earlier this week. Probably more the former because this book is brilliant but completely unpatriotic. Which is fine because war is terrible in every way for everyone involved and more people should remember that. 🥃 : #johnhorneburns #thegallery #wwiifiction #newyorkreviewofbooks #veternsday #remberanceday #🥀 #darkacademia #richardpapen #classiclit #classicliterature #literary #literarycommunity #bookstagram #lightacademia #readersofinstagram #writersofinstagram #blackwritersofinstagram #weirdblackgirl #protectweirdblackgirlsatallcosts #deadauthors #romanticacademia #biblophile #gothicacademia #asecondofwhimsy #romanticism #booksbooksbooks #fallvibes #deadpoetssociety (at Galleria Umberto I) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHoQ70_hb77/?igshid=mvp2ioaiqwa