The Picador Book Room

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William S. Burroughs and his cat Ginger in the backyard of his home in Lawrence, Kansas. 

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The Juliet Club (Club di Giulietta) receives more than 6,000 letters of heartbreak and unrequited love a year. Some envelopes include the club’s address; others simply say To: Juliet.

An example, from India:

Dear Juliet,

I am madly in love. I know you get millions of letters with love problems written from around the world. I write today to ask you for strength. I live in India where my parents won’t allow me to marry the guy that I love because he is from a different caste. He’s the only guy I have felt so strongly about. I know I will have to fight my family for him and I am ready. I ask you only for strength.

Always.

“Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.”

If you don’t feel like celebrating Noah Webster’s birthday (National Dictionary Day) by curling up with your edition of Merriam-Webster, try David Levithan’s The Lover’s Dictionary instead.

The importance of punctuation in a new light. (From The Lover’s Dictionary, by David Levithan, p. 162. Picador 2012.)

David Levithan reminds us what’s truly important in a relationship. (The Lover’s Dictionary, p. 22, Picador 2012)