“But he was right that to the degree a writer has metamorphosed his blood into ink his is an abandoned body. Or if the writer still has a personality, it is full of sharps & flats at odds with the tuned melody emitted by his writing. — Edmund White, The Farewell Symphony

Mariah Carey at 19 btw

We’ve simply decided for a worse and stupider world. There’s no reason for it, but we’re doing it anyway.

RIP Edmund White, whose novels, memoirs and non-fiction changed and enhanced American literature. A great writer and a gay icon, he was the opposite of everything Trumpian: brave, funny, inspiring and deeply committed to books and love. A true artist with an amazing legacy

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This is how us “older lambs” used to defend Mariah Carey before the social media trolls existed 😂

Italian American with a British accent singing in French while looking Japanese. Who's doing it like her

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Edmund White voiced a generation of gay men and his taboo-busting writing about and celebration of sex was profoundly and vitally political. He was also the most beguiling man I ever met: utterly charming, deliciously wicked and always excited by the intelligence of others 1/2

Edmund White 13 January 1940 - 3 June 2025 Edmund White shared a close friendship with Christopher Isherwood and considered him as “a great mentor because A Single Man is the first really modern gay novel. It’s unapologetic.”

for a very brief time Edmund White was director of creative writing at Princeton. how, why this happened no one seemed to know. Edmund graciously resigned when it was suggested to him that the director had to be actually present for the first week of school in January & not in

this is what internationalist intersectionality looks like

Unbelievable album. open.spotify.com/album/57YH772Z…

Why does she look like that girl from Overcompensating sdfjkdshjjskd

“MARTYR” - my Indonesia Fashion Week debut mini collection. 🩸🗡️ all garments designed, made and constructed by me. individual looks breakdown below.

Been watching some Youtubers’ reactions of no nan on HITC and none of them recognize the song playing after superstitious is Janet’s The Pleasure Principle.

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During the pandemic, I saunter through Edmund White’s books and find myself in the homosexual melancholy of his characters. It was unlike anything I’ve ever read. Will miss him so much.

Happy birthday Malcolm XL!!!