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http://trishymouse.net/images/gwen.jpg

― equinox, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:27 (nineteen years ago) link

The Pierre Loti should be blown up to 4x6 feet and hung on the wall in every AP English classroom as a warning.

what can happen if you immerse yourself in the fine arts.

― clellie, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:34 (nineteen years ago) link

http://joueb.com/dart/images/stupeur.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Samuel Beckett
http://www.beckettsirishpub.com/img/sbeckett_img/beckett1.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:40 (nineteen years ago) link

What about the authors who don't look good or eccentric? Don't they deserve a place here? Let's see...
Julian Barnes
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/b/julian-barnes-210x330.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

Stephen King!
http://tinypic.com/52sle
http://tinypic.com/52slu
http://tinypic.com/52sm0
http://tinypic.com/52smf

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Somehow, I've always liked how T.C. Boyle manages to do a rock-star-of-books pose and still come off like he's having fun with it:

http://www.davidstrick.com/Still%20More/Still%20More%201/images_still%20more%201/tc_boyle_frame.jpg

― Joseph J. Finn, Monday, 13 September 2004 20:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Rabindranath Tagore
http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/einst_tagore.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Monday, 13 September 2004 21:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey Fred

Who's that 'Yeti' you have posted up there?
She looks sweet but she seems to me like a young lady.

― MebbeImPaul, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link

― Rob Hinchcliffe, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:33 (nineteen years ago) link

ok that didn't work - one more go:

― Hinchcliffe, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Here he is:

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Grrrr.

http://www.thechildrensbookshop.com.au/img/SNICKET__LEMONY.jpg

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 06:49 (nineteen years ago) link

For a diptych with Plath:

― Dash--board, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:55 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www2.english.uiuc.edu/baym/255/dickensn.jpg

― Dash--board, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 08:56 (nineteen years ago) link

http://users.ev1.net/~alternity/books/mccullers.jpg
Carson McCullers. She kind of scares me there, but in a good way.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 09:25 (nineteen years ago) link

Who's that 'Yeti' you have posted up there?
She looks sweet but she seems to me like a young lady.
She's my personal author, à la Misery! She writes short stories for me.

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:47 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.themodernword.com/beckett/images/beckett_photos/buster.gif

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:54 (nineteen years ago) link

(That's Buster Keaton and Beckett, btw)

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 14:55 (nineteen years ago) link

The Eugenides photo upthread makes him look like a magician.

And that last King photo that Fred posted looks like Orson Welles!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

BICYCLE!!!

― MebbeImPaul, Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Yann Martel is kind of hott.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Oops...
http://wodehouse.meetup.com/photos/

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Wodehouse:
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/w/pg-wodehouse-200x300.jpg

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 14 September 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Tom Wolfe:

http://home.millsaps.edu/~mcelvrs/Tom_Wolfe.jpg

― RR (restandrec), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 03:41 (nineteen years ago) link

I've not got a picture of it but I once saw Anne carson read and she had red ribbons as laces in her shoes. Very fetching it was too.

― tim wells, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 09:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Statues, anyone?
http://www.courses.rochester.edu/seiberling/AAH128/IMAGES/IMG032.JPG
Balzac
http://events.adelphi.edu/news/archive/images/20030305a.jpg
The handsome Michael Chabon

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link

http://events.adelphi.edu/news/archive/images/20030305a.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 13:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Jane Austen

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/jacportr.jpg

― Jean W. Spencer, Wednesday, 15 September 2004 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link

You do know what Balzac is doing under that robe, right?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 15 September 2004 22:38 (nineteen years ago) link

gary shteyngart is pretty good

http://www.seattleweekly.com/graphics/features/0321/gary.jpg

― Guy, Thursday, 16 September 2004 04:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Gurdjieff
http://tinypic.com/5bv36

― Fred (Fred), Friday, 17 September 2004 16:06 (nineteen years ago) link

Fred -- I love that Nothomb photo too!! How did you like the book?

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Friday, 17 September 2004 22:17 (nineteen years ago) link

Well I have two of her books with me, Le Robert des noms propres and Stupeur et tremblements, but haven't read any of them as yet.

― Fred (Fred), Saturday, 18 September 2004 11:27 (nineteen years ago) link

In memoriam:
http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellows_pictures/r-donaghy-m.jpg

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 20 September 2004 15:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Fred, be ready for some yummy creepfulness.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 00:54 (nineteen years ago) link

Haha, okay!

― Fred (Fred), Tuesday, 21 September 2004 11:44 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.npg.si.edu/img2/cb/hometru.jpg

http://www.url.it/ambienti/libri/scrittori/img2/truman.jpg

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link

http://members.aol.com/heliogabby/private/gibbon.jpg

Scribble, scribble, scribble, eh?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 22 September 2004 00:56 (nineteen years ago) link

It bothers me that I can't find a scan of this wonderful picture I recently saw of Agnar Mykle.
O well, I did stumble upon this nice one of James Branch Cabell today, which somehow seems SO right:
ihttp://www.library.vcu.edu/jbcdocs/speccoll/images/scavan01.jpg

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Anais, what an ego! Here's to you!
http://www.jaquedeutudoerradomesmo.blogger.com.br/Anais%20Nin.jpg

― mickey (Speedy Gonzalas), Friday, 1 October 2004 00:23 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

Gee, none of Erica Jong?

― Aimless (Aimless), Sunday, 6 March 2005 06:53 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://www.fedrelandsvennen.no/multimedia/archive/00165/bj_rneboe_br_d_165439a.jpg
(Jens Bjørneboe)

― Øystein (Øystein), Sunday, 1 May 2005 09:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Dashing Tennyson:

http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/britlit/tenn/tenn1.jpg

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I could find the photo of Empson with his amazing bare-chinned superbeard! So awesome.

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Sunday, 1 May 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link

six months pass...

This one, GP?

http://www.poetsforum.com/images/poets/empson.jpg

I have a feeling you'd approve of this one, too:

http://www.sagarana.net/rivista/numero11/images/clarice_lispector_6.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 14 November 2005 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link

Herodotus:

http://www.crystalinks.com/herodotus.jpg

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 14 November 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link

This was a fun thread from ILE: Pictures of Writers

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 14 November 2005 23:48 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.kb.dk/elib/mss/dmg/moderne/ibsen/ibsen.jpg

The master.

― SRH (Skrik), Monday, 21 November 2005 15:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Someone pointed out to me that every picture of Gogol looks fantastic.

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/chabrieres/halloffame/img/gogol.jpg

(a) Someone prove this theory wrong.
(b) Is there a word for "photogenic" but for paintings?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 21 November 2005 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link

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http://40.media.tumblr.com/a7355fcd43aafd3b5b9a911a462808c9/tumblr_mz51gnM2uw1tnpbluo1_500.jpg

rené daumal

― no lime tangier, Monday, 31 August 2015 11:10 (eight years ago) link

http://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/oliver-sachs.jpg
Oliver Sacks (RIP)

― July retires into a shrubbery. (Øystein), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link

damn

― on entre O.K. on sort K.O. (man alive), Monday, 31 August 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link

Also https://rhystranter.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/oliver-sacks-young-motorcycle.jpg

― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 2 September 2015 03:04 (eight years ago) link

ten months pass...

Helen deWitt

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2016/07/08/magazine/11-dewitt-2.nocrop.w529.h708.jpg

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:20 (seven years ago) link

Imogen Binnie

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Imogen-Binnie.jpg

Tove Jansson

http://finland.fi/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/3427-jansson2_b-jpg-350x355.jpg

― one way street, Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:39 (seven years ago) link

That Tove is good. I like the apparently semi-transparent shape with a skeleton inside in the bgrnd, not sure what it is.

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:57 (seven years ago) link

shadows on a mannequin, maybe?

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Thursday, 14 July 2016 05:58 (seven years ago) link

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