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On BookTok, where a flashed book jacket conveys a glimmer of a user’s inner life, a classic text can leave a durable impression.

Helen Marcus, a late-blooming photographer whose evocative black-and-white portraits of literary figures and film and television personalities graced book jackets and magazine covers for decades, died on Oct.

The book jacket cut out the word "hokey" so the quote read only: "Wisdom combined with good advice."

All it takes to debunk this revelation is a glance at a few book jacket photos.

“Day by day Drew Barrymore is making it,” the book jacket of 1990’s “Little Girl Lost” says.