Thursday, September 19, 2013

5 of the Most Scandalous Affairs in Literary History


Here’s Mallory Ortberg at The Toast with news of one of the most wonderful literary meetings in history:
History has reached out to you specifically and given you a gift. The gift is the knowledge that Oscar Wilde once put his hand on Walt Whitman’s knee and then they drank elderberry wine together; the gift is that the next day a reporter turned up and Whitman expounded at length on his big, splendid boy.
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