The Toast set social media on fire with a piece of literary gossip this week, and like all the best literary gossip, it’s over 100 years old.
Here it is: Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde totally hooked up.
Maybe. Probably. “I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips”? Come on.
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