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Donna Tartt interviewed by Charlie Ross (1992) 

Oh, what have I read recently that was so good? It’s terrible to ask me the questions because I just read the same books over and over again.


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ever look at a piece of art and think of how a simple picture, painting, music, or book transcend time. For it to live through generations of generations, era after era, and yet, here it stays, alive and beating. as it captured the hearts of many before, now it beguiles us with the same intensity, even bringing us to tears, knowing that behind each stroke, note, and word is another person’s soul laid bare. gazing in the depths of the Art, we reconcile with the ghost of its creator, drifting and immortal. in a simple glimpse, we became a part of the undying

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Donna Tartt by Gilles Peress (1993)


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Henry, Camilla & Charles

I keep my entire life in a set of Moleskine notebooks. I browsed some old ones today and found this dark academia picture in my first notebook from a few years back.

Most of the benches bore the names of benefactors - in memory of Mrs. Ruth Klein or whatever - but my mother’s bench, the Rendezvous Point, alone of all the benches in that part of the park had been given by its anonymous donor a more mysterious and welcoming message: EVERYTHING OF POSSIBILITY.

Donna Tartt - “The Goldfinch”

quidfree commissioned judy, richard and francis in their 30s. and they’re characters i couldn’t be h

quidfree commissioned judy, richard and francis in their 30s. and they’re characters i couldn’t be happier to draw. thank you again!


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why is everything always so horrible all the time?

why is everything always so horrible all the time?


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i know what it feels like to die

i know what it feels like to die


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Found a 2016 drawing I did of my favourite books, way before I considered doing commissions of these.

I’m happy to see how many books I’ve read since then that have made it into my current faves and how a re-read can make you remember how great something is, a good reminder that your next book could always be the best one you’ve read!

Also, most of those old faves would still be in contention.

Also, how is The Goldfinch still Donna Tartt’s most recent novel?

let-there-be-madness:

Academic aesthetics


Dark Academia

Long Black coats, thunder but no lightning, red wine, blood, forests in winter, a single guttering candle, latin, bones, all of history in your hands, Tchaikovsky, piles of old books, the hour before sunrise, complicated cravats, Hozier, true crime, Donna Tartt, secret diaries.


Light Academia

Sunshine in shallow water, white cotton, lacy dresses, champagne, the plays of Oscar Wilde, summer rain, wind rustling the pages of a book, jacket over on shoulder, Maurice, frost covering new flowers, Florence + the machine, roses, bare feet, girls school, old books about species of plant or butterflies, biological Diagrams, flowers in your hair, perfect notes.


Chaotic Academia

Two top buttons undone, scribbled notes in pencil or biro, kill your darlings, untied laces, so much coffee, all nighters, crying in the library, Mozart, writing film scripts for fun, rain Storms, moorland, swimming in the dark, movie soundtracks while studying, procrastination, muddy boots, unsent letters.


Grey Academia

Jane eyre, sunrise, cold hands, perfect handwriting, beat gen, Edgar Alan Poe, crows, small animal bones, writing essays until 2am, Vivaldi, February or November, zodiacs, loving history and art, Leonardo davinci, Tamino.


Romantic Academia

Billowing pirate sleeves, Lord Byron, theatre, violets, achilles, reading poetry aloud, bloody cheekbones, love letters, doodling in class, doc Martins, long ball dresses, gothic churches, dead poets society, sword fights back stage, wind and mist and violent Storms, tea, long journal entries, wide brimmed hats, museums.


Spring Academia

Cotton shirts with large jumpers, celendines, maypole dancing, reading short stories, old traditions, Jane Austen, new term, beautiful notes, pastel colours, period dramas, magpies, 2005 pride and prejudice soundtrack, new leaves, cold feet, dancing.


Summer Academia

Flower crowns, studying late while the sun is still up, full moons, parties outside, sun dresses, warm rainstorms, exam season, bare feet, ancient Greece, herb tea, singing to the radio, lying in the grass, bird song, biology textbooks, the Lord of the rings, studying outside, mystery of love by sufjan Stevens.


Autumn Academia

Foxes, dead leaves, large coats and scarves, old stone walls, steaming black tea, mist, travel journals, forgetting to study until the last minute, frankenstein, old songs, nostalgia, carrying a book everywhere, rebel rebel, the picture of dorian gray, soup, studying in the morning as the sun rises.


Winter Academia

Long walks, misty breath, so much reading, shunning capitalist society, sad music, learning about witch hunts, philosophy, wuthering heights, mystery books, Dracula, black and white photos, transcribing music, old statues, silence.


Feral Academia

Pin stripe jacket with jeans, Dionysus, “norse” makeup, cold sweet tea, running through the forest, mythology, I got an unconditional so I don’t need to try hard, scraping the grades, shouty music, helenic polytheism, obsessive interests, reading a 500 page book in one sitting, love learning, hate the education system, vive le revolution.

So cool! I feel like chaotic, autumn and feral the most

I’ve been rereading The Secret History. At the beginning of things, Richard goes for a walk with Cha

I’ve been rereading The Secret History. At the beginning of things, Richard goes for a walk with Charles and Camilla.


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Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it • The Secret History by Donna Tartt

YOU DIDN’T THINK I’D MISS TAKING A SELFIE + SHELFIE WHEN I FINALLY HAVE A DECENT MINI-LI

YOU DIDN’T THINK I’D MISS TAKING A SELFIE + SHELFIE WHEN I FINALLY HAVE A DECENT MINI-LIBRARY IN MY BEDROOM NOW, RIGHT?

Of course not. But to give this photo an excuse for a good purpose, here’s my current read: the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I’m 700 pages in and enjoying it! Theo Decker is a wonderfully flawed (albeit unlikable) character and I’m captivated by the way he handles the slew of thoughts and memories in his head. It gives the narration a very real feel to it, almost as if the text is part of a transcript of some obsessed kid’s free-flowing thoughts.

The book’s a big doorstopper, though, and I could only plough through it slowly because I’ve got just my shuttle bus rides to work and an hour before bedtime as my reading time these days. :( 

How about you guys? What are you reading?


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People who prefer the secret history: Yes we have Henry who is from St. Louis and spends his time writing his diary in Latin and plotting how to murder his annoying friend, Frances the red headed homosexual whose grandparents raised him and his mother as siblings and has been going for both Charles and Richard while being a huge bitch, Camilla the orphan of course who looks like a medieval painting and may or may not be in an incestuous relationship with her twin brother…..

People who prefer the goldfinch: this is Theo he sucks and here’s his piece of shit Russian boyfriend Boris

 “Beauty is terror; whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it” decided to put on p

“Beauty is terror; whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it”

decided to put on paper something about what’s taking so much space in my mind lately > so yeah, go read The Secret History!


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Super specific fanart from The Little Friend

Super specific fanart from The Little Friend


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pastelparrotlet:

Donna Tartt is just like “here, have a book that makes you fall back in love with life and the human experience again” and I, like a baby bird with its mouth agape, swallow it whole every time.

I hope Francis Abernathy had a brilliant day today :)

dionysus-and-the-bacchantes:

when richard papen said “i felt my existence was tainted, in some subtle but essential way” i felt that

guess a book by description dark academia edition: group of people, some of them are friends, some of them are enemies, some of them are both at once, most of them are from rich families even if they don’t interact with their parents, one of them isn’t sure they have a right to be here, found family trope but in the fucked up way, a lot of subtex, homoerotic included, murder and suicide, mystery and intrigues, great language and atmosphere

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