Bygone days: Literary ads from the 60s and 70s
May 06
The New York Times has put together this great little slideshow of literary ads from the 1960s and 70s.
Highlights are a young Susan Sontag with her first novel, a little-known piece of illustration by Maurice Sendak (of Where the Wild Things Are fame), early days for Joan Didion’s Play it as it Lays, Cormac McCarthy as a talking head and John Leonard on Toni Morrison – ‘It is one thing to state that we have institutionalised waste, that children suffocate under mountains of merchandised lies. It is another thing to demonstrate that waste, to re-create those children, to live and die by it. Miss Morrison’s angry sadness overwhelms’.
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