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c'mon, the philosophes have a thread ... so now do the auteurs!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:11 (nineteen years ago) link

vladimir nabokov, the impaler of crap literature:

http://www.wellesley.edu/Russian/scans/nabokov3.jpg

http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/nabokov.jpg

http://libpavel.km.ru/Russkaya/Dvadcatyi_vek/Russkoe_zarubezie/Nabokov_V/Nabokov.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Samuel R. Delany:

(I wish I could get my beard to do that.)

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

José Saramago

http://www.fulguris.org/lomejordetodo/archivos/jose_saramago01.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.hollywoodinvestigator.com/2003/Dan%20Fante%20cover.jpg

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:18 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.rusf.ru/fc/img/big/bulgakov.jpg

― VIC MACKEY (nordicskilla), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Vlad Nabokov, impaler of butterflies also.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Margaret Atwood

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2001/11.08/photos/atwood.jpg

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:23 (nineteen years ago) link

my dogg shakespeare
http://www.edinformatics.com/great_thinkers/219px-Shakespeare.jpg

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:25 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.svejkcentral.com/images/Jaroslav%20Hasek.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Beckett, waiting:
http://lib.ru/PXESY/BEKETT/Beckett.gif

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Tatiana Tolstoya

http://img.rosbalt.ru/doc/photos/F1040006_1012.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Lester Bangs

― Curious George Finds the Ether Bottle (Rock Hardy), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Henry Green

http://home.freeuk.com/jons/bernadet/page048.JPG

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:30 (nineteen years ago) link

thomas pynchon

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

the richardson v. fielding BEEF was the 18th century version of the jay-z/nas or the 50/ja-rule beefs!

http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/r/samuel-richardson-200x304.jpg

http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/fldgh/fielding.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link

and lest we forget:

http://www.louisville.edu/a-s/english/subcultures/ideas/buzzpounds/pounhunter.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:33 (nineteen years ago) link

This photo of Nathan Englander is terrific: he looks like his band just got a slot opening for Temple of the Dog. His hair is shorter now.

http://www.insideout.org/documentaries/jerusalem/images/englander_big.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Playing bass, maybe, one would find Brian Evenson:

http://fc2.org/evenson/evenson.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Steven Millhauser looks like he writes:

http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1997/fiction/bio/millhauser.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Michel Tournier

http://www.academie-goncourt.fr/img/tournier_260wh.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Lorrie Moore plays with her hair:

http://www.pub.umich.edu/daily/1997/feb/02-07-97/photos/fileartsmoore.gif

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

William Maxwell

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1480000/images/_1482701_maxwell150.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

CURSE YOU BLOUNT.

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_house.jpg

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:41 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/pics/ondaatje.jpg

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:43 (nineteen years ago) link

Anthony Powell

http://orwell.ru/bio/gallery/img/_0139w.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

http://sf.emse.fr/AUTHORS/SRUSHDIE/SR-B.GIF

"YOU'RE PUNY FATWA SCARES NOT ME."

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:44 (nineteen years ago) link

(Geez: I just found a particularly babe-like shot of my workshop prof at a reading. I can't quite bring myself to post it, though.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link

Aldous Huxley:

http://www.huxley.net/ah/aldous-huxley.jpg

Dashing and handsome and damn near blind.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link

Henry Miller

http://orwell.ru/bio/gallery/img/_0140w.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Anthnoy Burgess

http://www.anthonyburgess.org/images/sideimgs/membership.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.internationaler-buchpreis.de/images/chronik/gala2003/jonathan_safran_foer.jpg

"Hi! I'm a pretentious twat!"

http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/01/0521/m/foer.jpg

"Oh my! Too many exclamation marks! (See how pomo I am!)"

xpost I know what you mean nabisco, there was a prof at my school I thought about putting on the philosopher's thread, but weirdness ensued.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.ronaldbrucemeyer.com/rantpix/lewis.jpg

One of the neatest things I've observed were teenaged girls smoking cigarettes behind the Sauk Centre post office.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Jorge Luis Borges

http://www2.ups.edu/faculty/velez/FL380/borges.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:48 (nineteen years ago) link

"Gee, Lee, is that Elijah Wood?"

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Man. Safran Foer really is begging to be punched in the face, isn't he?

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Italo Calvino

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mexiqueculture/imagenes/n6-calvino.gif

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:50 (nineteen years ago) link

(And yeah, Lee, weirdness plus if I posted this pic it would seem like I was doing it for very prurient reasons.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

what do you look like - märz zwei tausend und fünf

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.erbzine.com/mag10/fmiller4.jpg

"Comics aren't just for kids anymore!"

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Robertson Davies

http://www.canadianheritage.org/images/regular/20999.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Raymond Queneau:

http://www.ville-lehavre.fr/decouvrir/patrimoine/histoire/images/queneau.gif

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:52 (nineteen years ago) link

An interesting self-portrait:

http://www.homepages.indiana.edu/092702/images/plath_Self-portrait.jpg

― sugarpants: the luscious ingenue (sugarpants), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

My new comics crush:

http://www.titanbooks.com/images/books/creators/brian_k_vaughan.jpg

BKV you shexy beasht!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Whoah: who'd have guessed David Mitchell looked like this?

http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/1100/mitchell/images/photo.mitchell.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Cormac McCarty
http://web.utk.edu/~mklein/cormac.jpg

William Faulkner
http://www.saefraternity.org/imagelibrary/Faulkner,_William_632.jpg

You-know-who
http://www.pku.edu.cn/life/xuehui/yasp/pic-sheyingdashi/yousuf%20karsh/Ernest%20Hemingway,.jpg

And this asshole
http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/graphics/mailer.gif

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Michel Houellebecq

http://www.bok.bonnier.se/foton/abfoton/jpg/michel_houellebecq_kika.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link

John Steinbeck

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/steinbeck_j.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

John Steinbeck

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/steinbeck_j.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Lawrence Durrell

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/durrell_l.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link

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flaubert, again:

http://www.robotwisdom.com/flaubert/flaubert.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:33 (nineteen years ago) link

g. k. chesterton:

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/aut/pix/chesterton.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:38 (nineteen years ago) link

martin amis:

http://www.edrants.com/reluctant/marty.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:39 (nineteen years ago) link

tolstoy:

http://files.db3nf.com/pictures/authors/tolstoy.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link

t.s. eliot:

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/pictures/eliot.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:43 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.tananarivedue.com/images/tananarive2.jpg
Tananarive Due

― Galatea, Friday, 25 March 2005 01:45 (nineteen years ago) link

st. augustine:

http://users.aol.com/butrousch/augustine/aug.gif

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:47 (nineteen years ago) link

that sculpture is quite phallic

john kennedy toole

http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/Toole.gif

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:48 (nineteen years ago) link

colson whitehead:

http://www.writenet.org/fiction_writers/images/colin_whitehead.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link

ring lardner:

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/spink_bios/images/lardner_ring.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:51 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/hofers_and_honorees/spink_bios/images/lardner_ring.jpg

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Friday, 25 March 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Richard Powers

― Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Sections/Newsweek/Components/Photos/Web_Exclusives/040504_040510/040507_LEngle_hu.hmedium.jpg
Madeleine L’Engle

http://education.powys.gov.uk/english/literacy_special/images/jennynimmo1.jpg
Jenny Nimmo

http://www.endicott-studio.com/gfx/bio/bioblack.jpg
Holly Black

― Galatea, Friday, 25 March 2005 04:17 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.desertdreamsbooks.com/Images/carey.jpg
Jacqueline Carey

http://www.bloomsbury.com/media/clarke10.gif
Susanna Clarke

http://empirezine.com/spotlight/zimmer/zimmer1.jpg
Marion Zimmer Bradley

http://www.locusmag.com/2000/Issues/06/butler2.jpg
Octavia E. Butler

― Galatea, Friday, 25 March 2005 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link

I never realized how much Octavia Butler looks like CCH Pounder.

― Austin Swinburn (Austin, Still), Friday, 25 March 2005 04:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Here are some authors either not already pictured or alternative images

Edith Sitwell
http://www.mouselight.com.au/images/author pics/edith_sitwell.jpg

Angela Carter
http://www.mouselight.com.au/images/author pics/angela_carter.jpg

Mervyn Peake
http://www.mouselight.com.au/images/author pics/mervyn_peake.jpg

Another of Mervyn
http://www.mouselight.com.au/images/author pics/mervyn_peake2.jpg

William Gibson
http://www.mouselight.com.au/images/author pics/william_gibson.jpg

Deborah Levy
http://www.mouselight.com.au/images/author pics/deborah_levy.jpg

John Crowley
http://www.mouselight.com.au/images/author pics/john_crowley.jpg

Michael Ondaatje
http://www.mouselight.com.au/images/author pics/michael_ondaatje.jpg

― vainglory, Sunday, 3 April 2005 05:02 (nineteen years ago) link

The ever handsome Jack Kerouac
http://www.npg.si.edu/img2/rebels/kerouac.jpg

Poppy Z Brite
http://www.realmgothica.com/RealmGothica/graphics/featured/PZB3.jpg

Anais Nin
http://www.anais-nin.de/pic/anaissmall.jpg

Charles Bukowski
http://www.smog.net/writers/bukowski/images/bukowski029.jpg

Edward Albee
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/images/4145n019.jpg

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 3 April 2005 06:17 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/authphoto_330/3688_budnitz_judy.jpg

Judy Budnitz

― L (Leee), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 01:17 (eighteen years ago) link

i just love this one of hemingway. he looks so drunk.

http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/pictures/hemingway.jpg

― AaronK (AaronK), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 11:57 (eighteen years ago) link

John Garnder

http://home1.gte.net/tomchat/DadEmailSig.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 17 May 2005 16:02 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Jewel
http://www.harperacademic.com/coverimages/large/0694520462.jpg

― emilys, Monday, 12 September 2005 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link

okay, seriously tho...

http://project1.caryacademy.org/echoes/03-04/Dylan_Thomas/images/thomaspic-web.gif
Dylan Thomas looking pretty fine

― emilys, Monday, 12 September 2005 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link

five months pass...

he is mine !!!!!

http://idata.over-blog.com/0/16/67/74/moi/di-folco-par-arditti.jpg
Photo : Portrait "Love Supreme" par Arditti, 2001

― difolco, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link

he is mine !!!!!

http://idata.over-blog.com/0/16/67/74/moi/di-folco-par-arditti.jpg
Photo : Portrait "Love Supreme" par Arditti, 2001

― Philippe Di Folco, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link

Poet -

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/images/downloads/bubbrubb.jpg

― Nable Pierce, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

one year passes...

haha we got FPPed

http://www.metafilter.com/67704/Photographs-of-Authors

― get bent, Thursday, 27 December 2007 02:41 (sixteen years ago) link

http://atheisme.free.fr/Biographies/Photos/Camus.jpg
http://www.renodiscontent.com/wp-content/Strummer.jpg

― milo z, Thursday, 27 December 2007 05:26 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/readings/images/poets/mhowe.jpg
Marie Howe

http://arliquidodois.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/wszymborska.jpg
Wislawa Szymborska

http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/writers/ammons.jpg
A.R. Ammons A+++++

Goldbarthz with lazerz pewpew

― bnw, Thursday, 27 December 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link

http://poetryfoundation.org/images/features/Goldbarth015.gif

― bnw, Thursday, 27 December 2007 05:42 (sixteen years ago) link

Roland Barthes

http://palavraguda.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/roland_barthes.jpg

― strgn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 07:13 (sixteen years ago) link

David Markson

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/07/08/books/mark190.jpg

― strgn, Thursday, 27 December 2007 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link

http://www.panoramica.be/panoramica16/jpegs/roberto-bolano.jpg

― jim, Thursday, 27 December 2007 07:20 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

Anne Sexton o_O

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/anne-sexton.jpg

― Office Tebow (Leee), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:36 (twelve years ago) link

One of my favorite author photos, and one of my favorite Avedon photos. W.H. Auden:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XW3JnYog0h0/TXT5E_lOWeI/AAAAAAAACP4/73kDI4gY3Lc/s1600/e5Q80ueuViw44eokukvP2BsSo1_500.png

― "Flashy...hip" (Eazy), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:40 (twelve years ago) link

Brian Friel:

http://www.edinburghguide.com/files/images/brian_friel.preview.jpg

― "Flashy...hip" (Eazy), Saturday, 24 March 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link

four years pass...

Victor Hugo:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Victor_Hugo_by_%C3%89tienne_Carjat_1876_-_full.jpg/800px-Victor_Hugo_by_%C3%89tienne_Carjat_1876_-_full.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 12 August 2016 11:33 (seven years ago) link

William Blake, wearing a hat:
http://imgsrc.art.com/img/print/print/john-linnell-william-blake-wearing-a-hat-inscription-wm-blake-at-hampstead-c-1825_a-g-10065553-8880726.jpg?w=632&h=948

― ArchCarrier, Monday, 15 August 2016 17:10 (seven years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Tolstoy:
http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/letters_1-092916.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link

one month passes...

Alan Moore:
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/124f53941f4644c6fc6383a5814b7a625b5d41aa/0_0_5433_3260/master/5433.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=d96374cc044bed6d163e4408fcd1a912

― ArchCarrier, Monday, 17 October 2016 09:25 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

Tom Wolfe (RIP):
https://media.newyorker.com/photos/5afb06cbfe9489434c2d380b/master/pass/Gopnik-Tom-Wolfe-Postscript.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:22 (five years ago) link

the big man himself (Thomas Bernhard)

https://biblioklept.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/bernhard.jpg

― devvvine, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:30 (five years ago) link

https://collectionimages.npg.org.uk/large/mw57990/Anita-Brookner.jpg

Anita Brookner

― soref, Thursday, 17 May 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link

Another R.I.P.:
http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/philip-roth-yaddo.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 25 May 2018 12:21 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9d925eb379abb1676ce3b6ec705e5e8f9cab722d/0_377_3744_2246/master/3744.jpg?width=1225&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f03e4f7360ecb2bec010f2b211cf3c5b
Joyce Carol Oates

― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 29 November 2018 08:32 (five years ago) link

https://images.nrc.nl/sX-2owX7qVlvHx0mPsYKkazp9iE=/1920x/filters:no_upscale()/s3/static.nrc.nl/images/gn4/stripped/data36716422-40377a.jpg
Annet Schaap (Dutch writer of children's books)

― ArchCarrier, Thursday, 29 November 2018 08:33 (five years ago) link

six months pass...

Iris Murdoch:
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/06/26/books/24book-murdoch-print/24book-murdoch1-jumbo.jpg

― ArchCarrier, Wednesday, 26 June 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link

three years pass...

He's already been posted but this look is worth seeing again. Wyndham Lewis.

https://www.oswaldmosley.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Percy-Wyndham-Lewis.jpg

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 April 2023 11:05 (one year ago) link

The great man himself, Henry Green, apparently having just given up on whatever repairs he was carrying out.

https://www.evelynwaugh.org.uk/styled-72/files/evdt8jouq0025uyqgzeycpoia_thumb_c7d9.jpg

― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 2 April 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link

nine months pass...

Writers at Work

― ArchCarrier, Friday, 26 January 2024 10:33 (three months ago) link

two weeks pass...

https://pyxis.nymag.com/v1/imgs/54d/8c1/179b69a275ccaf9ef94c1994b4b937e6fc-0623CR-Kelly-kellylink1-v3.2x.rhorizontal.w1100.jpg
Kelly Link

― ArchCarrier, Monday, 12 February 2024 12:51 (two months ago) link

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