Gaddis's Ghostcoat

Someone had to do this.

Author Tobias Wolf, of the famous memoir "This Boy's Life," poses casually before attending a reading at the Iowa Writers Workshop.

A photographer caught a rare moment of Cormac McCarthy sharing a moment with his nephew Phil.

A rare peak at JG Ballard's writing studio, circa 1994.

@CorrasJudy30732 That is Joan Didion.

@GhostTrenchcoat It's David Bowie pushing the pram.

Joan Didion pushes baby daughter Quintana Roo Dunne in a pram. John Gregory Dunne lends a hand. (Photograph circa 1968.)

This is where they keep all the cars used in making J.G. Ballard's novel "Crash."

Here is the writing desk of Michel Houellebecq, the "enfant terrible" of French literature.

Norman Mailer at his writing desk. 1963.

When Papa László is just a little disappointed that you were late to the last Small Group Meeting for the Sect.

Rare photograph of Thomas Pynchon signing his latest novel “Shadow Ticker”

I think it is supposed to be a “joke”..but this s-dog is actually a young David Forster Wallace in disguise (sunglasses ‘). He was doing research for an essay about television ‘

A rare picture of Thomas Pynchon working on an early draft of "Against the Days." He was doing research in an experimental dirigible and the altitude required a special oxygen helmet..

A leaked photograph of Thomas Pynchon's cameo in the new Paul Thomas Anderson film "One Battle After Another." The film is based on Pynchon's beloved novel "Vineland."

Joan Didion, LA, 1966

A rare picture of the Great American Novelist Jonathan Franzen taking his friend Carl bird watching at night.

This is David Foster Wallace’s personal copy of Cormac McCarthy’s novel SUTTREE.

CHIMERA, John Barth, 1972.

A long lost Jorge Luis Borges manuscript, "The Fable of the Frogs" has , just been discovered

A rare photograph of William S. Burroughs writing chair in his infamous "Bunker" studio in the Bowery. Photograph by Allan Ginsburg.