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IN MEMORIAM

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EDMUND WHITE 1940-2025

"Edmund White wrote some of the best and bravest novels, biographies, and memoirs of the last fifty years, many of which will remain classics for generations to come. It is impossible to overstate the importance or influence of his writing, in bringing the gay experience to the widest readership, and always achieved with wit, elegance and sexual candor.”

~ PAUL BAGGALEY Editor in Chief , Bloomsbury

"Across biography, social history, and memoir, in both fiction and nonfiction, Edmund White has chronicled the gay experience in the United States from the closeted 1950s through the AIDS crisis and beyond. But as William Goldstein wrote in Publishers Weekly, “To call Edmund White merely a gay writer is to oversimplify his work and his intentions.” The acuity, insight, and compassion with which White explores the human condition transcends labels." ~ LYCEUM AGENCY "How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice."

~ EDMUND WHITE Chapter Six (p. 170) - A Boy's Own Story (1982)

"Nocturnes for the King of Naples" ~ Edmund White, 1978 cover art by Mel Odom

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1937 Zephyr Land Yacht

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" Yawn, Thirst & Colors " // © Olivia Lundborg

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amadeus gräber

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Photographer: David Armstrong, Harlequin

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self portrait by caleb hahne quintana, 2020, colored pencil on colored paper, 14 × 11 inches

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Albert Weisgerber, “Garçon nu Assis dans un Bois”, 1912, Oil on Board

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Happy Summer to All, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (1767-1824).

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Giovanni Giacometti, born Giovanni Ulrico Giacometti (1868 - 1933), the Swiss painter who also fathered Alberto and Diego Giacometti, his artists sons and architect Bruno Giacometti, 'In Riva del Lago,' 1921, thanks to an earlier post from @Newloverofbeauty.

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Marthynus van Heerden

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