#jane bowles

“I can’t keep on all my life writing in the same way…The world now is quite different and so is my life in it.” —Anna Kavan, née Helen Woods, born this day in 1901

As editor Victoria Walker notes in her intro, Kavan’s stories about troubled outsiders recall the work of Jean Rhys, Jane Bowles, and Carson McCullers, and her gothic tones might remind you of Leonora Carrington and Isak Dinesen. Definitely worth a read.

Cover art: Gertrude Abercrombie, Reverie, 1947; photograph: Illinois State Museum