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Michel Houellebecq

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

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

John Steinbeck

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

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

John Steinbeck

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

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Lawrence Durrell

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

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

God I hate the sight of Hemingway's fat head.

The web offers me no pictures of William Goyen! But you can see his widow every week on Everybody Loves Raymond.

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Dorothy Parker:

http://www.maup.nl/fav/parker.gif

I always liked how happy she seems in this photo.

sugarpants: the luscious ingenue (sugarpants), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

"...last spotted with a smile on her face in 1955."

sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Clarice Lispector:

http://www.vidaslusofonas.pt/clarice01.gif

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

oh my. How oddly lovely.

sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Juan Rulfo:

http://www.artifara.com/rivista1/images/rulfo2.jpg

And Aimee Bender looks about like you'd think:

http://www.indiana.edu/~inreview/images/headshots/bender.jpg

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Marguerite Duras

http://www.leme.pt/biografias/franca/letras/duras.gif

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Can't mention Parker and not mention her pal, Robert Benchley

http://nrbench.home.mindspring.com/images/chart.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.beyondbaroque.org/bigpicture/gallery/images/hubert_selby_jr.jpg

HUBERT SELBY RIP!

andy --, Monday, 21 March 2005 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

That photo of Hemingway makes him look like he's on the original Star Trek.

Two for the price of one: (Zelda and F. Scott):

http://www.shortstory.by.ru/fitzgerald/scott-fitzgerald02.jpg

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

these guys arent as funny looking as the philosophers.

ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Emily Dickinson

http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/photos/d/emily-dickinson-200x325.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Italo Svevo:

http://www.italosvevo.it/Svevo.jpg

Garcia-Marquez (probably the coolest-looking damn writer on the planet)

http://www.vnn.vn/dataimages/original/images311181_garcia_marquez_gabriel.jpg

Remy (x Jeremy), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Balzac

http://www.ac-rouen.fr/pedagogie/equipes/lettres/louvre/balzac/balzac2.gif

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.facade.com/celebrity/photo/L_Ron_Hubbard.jpg

L Ron Hubbard as he appeared between "Astral Weeks" and "Moondance."

andy --, Monday, 21 March 2005 23:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Separated at birth!

nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Cintra Wilson:

http://www.altmanphoto.com/Cintra.Wilson.med.jpeg

Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Pushkin

http://www.r-ds.com/images/ImagesOpera/pushkin.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Joris-Karl Huysmans

http://www.geocities.com/decadentismo/Huysmans.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

how wise hesse looks
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:EBZYKed4FjcJ:http://www.schwarzaufweiss.de/Schwarzwald/images/Hesse%2520(Suhrkamp).jpg

Holly (an appletross), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Arthur Rimbaud

http://www.cndp.fr/themadoc/niepce/Images/RIMBAUD_.JPG

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

and knut hamsun...looks like a creep
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d6/180px-Hamsun.jpg

Holly (an appletross), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Baudelaire

http://www.cndp.fr/themadoc/niepce/Images/baudelaire_.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.kingfisherpress.com/images/Fiskejon_Gang_2cropgraybcsharpen7.jpg

Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/virtual/portrait/o-wilde.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Antonio Tabucchi

http://www.italialibri.net/grafica/autori/tabucchi_a-200.gif

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Not funny lookin', you say? Well, how's about a little Georges Perec for ya?

http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/g/Georges_Perec.jpg

emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Sterne:

http://www.nexusitalia.com/sterne.jpg

emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Samuel Pepys

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/21/Samuel_Pepys.jpg

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Regarding Pynchon: He was a sailor boi, she said see ya later boi...

Ian Riese-Moraine. Sweeter than a lorry load of white Toblerones. (Eastern Mantr, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"death be not proud"
http://alumniweb.hertford.ox.ac.uk/media/1/20030218-donne.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

young Yeats is cool
http://www.poets.org/bin/poets/wbyeats.jpg

the startling eyes of Franz Kafka
http://www.facade.com/celebrity/photo/Franz_Kafka.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Russian represent!

Tolstoy
http://www.membank.org/dataset/f/tolstoy.gif

Dostoevksy
http://s00.middlebury.edu/RU351A/novels/HD/dostoevsky.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:08 (twenty-one years ago)

melancholy Melville
http://www.mardou.de/beat/bilder/wortschatz/melville%20herman.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Czeslaw Milosz

http://www.bacjrr.org/gallery/lemkhin/CzeslawMilosz_big.jpg


gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

this is my favorite thread ever in the history of forever. please keep going forever. (and can someone please find that picture of isaac babel that is on the cover of my penguin paperback where he looks like a MORE demented uncle fester? please?)

scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.lacentral.com/autoresgif/kundera2.jpg

There's somethin' kinda cheeky and wise about Milan Kundera's face.

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Mishima
http://www.tomita.net/image/mishima.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:14 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.djclark.com/godwin/th70.jpg

Ted Hughes: ladies man, or long suffering psycho-magnet?

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Twain, doing his Nietzsche impression (see other thread)
http://www.cmgww.com/historic/twain/twnm003.jpg

Walt Whitman, compulsive fingernail biter
http://biografieonline.it/img/bio/Walt_Whitman.jpg

Walker Percy, charmingly laid back
http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ek867/walker.percy.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Nathanael West, who left too soon
http://www.alohacriticon.com/images/viajeliterariofotos/nathanaelwest.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

"Had we but world enough, and time"--Andrew Marvell, desperate for it.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/STUmarvellA.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:28 (twenty-one years ago)

"The paths of glory lead but to the grave."
Thomas Gray
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/g/thomas-gray-200x300.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Keats, looking wistful
http://www.todayinliterature.com/assets/portraits/k/john-keats-190x270.jpg

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Ezra Pound, young and not a little dashing:

http://www.nhc.rtp.nc.us/images/raitt2.jpg

Ezra Pound, old former Fascist mouthpiece:

http://www.usask.ca/english/page/EP_In_Italy_cover_small.JPG

Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (six years ago)

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 (three years ago)

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 (three years ago)

nine months pass...

Writers at Work

ArchCarrier, Friday, 26 January 2024 10:33 (two years ago)

two weeks pass...

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