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Gordon Lish and Ray Ray Carver. 1983.

A rare photo of Joyce Carol Oates's writing studio.

Blue Lard, Vladimir Sorokin, 1999.

Dashing Don DeLillo at the debut party for his groundbreaking novel "The Underworld." New York City, 1997.

A previously-unpublished photograph of William T. Vollmann inhabiting his persona "Dolores"

Thomas Pynchon delivering an early manuscript of "V." to his first agent Candida Donadio.

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Jorge Luis Borges writing an early draft of "The Aleph"

Alan Moore. Nara, Japan, 1989.

A rare picture of the reclusive author JD Salinger working on his unfinished novel Requiem for the Phantom of the Opera.

A very rare photograph of Joan Didion and Robert Mapplethorpe. Hoboken, NJ, circa 1980.

A young Samuel R. Delaney emailing the manuscript for his epic sci-fi masterpiece "Dhalgren" to his editor.

This is David Foster Wallace's annotated copy of James Joyce's novel "Ullyses"

The late John Barth working on the manuscript for his never-released sequel Giles Goat Man.

This is astronaut Neil Armstrong's annotated copy of "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon.

A rare photograph of a teenage Thomas Pynchon at summer camp, somewhere in upstate New York, c. 1953.