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http://users.bathspa.ac.uk/conrad/Joseph_Conrad.gif

― ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:47 (nineteen years ago) link

a dashing young yeats

http://www.poets.org/bin/poets/wbyeats.jpg

― Holly (an appletross), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 04:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Ellison: "I'm Harlan Ellison. I write science fiction."
me, shocked: "No! Whoda thunk of it!"
Ellison: "Except I don't like to call it science fiction, because I'm too high-minded about it."
me, shocked: "And you're a bit of a prick. Man, you woulda had me fooled."
Ellison: "Hey, you wanna smoke some grass and go to a key party?"
me: "Okay."

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Denton Welch http://alex.edfac.usyd.edu.au/BLP/websites/LOUTTIT%20WEBSITE/youngDW.JPG

― youn, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Shelley

http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/shellym.jpg

Stoker

http://eric.b.olsen.tripod.com/images/stoker.jpg

― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 05:33 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.peripheries.net/images/berger.jpg

John Berger finding a new way of seeing.

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

Does Lorrie Moore EVER take a bad picture? According to the photos I've seen of her, NO.

Dorothy Parker and Clarice Lispector both look like they could've been either movie stars or models or both. That Aimee Bender looks like she would be a really cool friend to have, though -- this is why I will SO check out her writings, first chance I get!

Favorite photo = one with Zelda Sayre and F. Scott Fitzgerald and family (sorry, can't remember the name of their daughter). They not only look as though they'd lived the lives of Fitzgerald's protagonists, the fact that I now know what they looked like brings a whole new dimension to Fitzgerald's novels. I think.

e.e. cummings is The Man. Robert Frost and Anthony Powell are/were HELLA suave. Anthony Burgess looks like the type of individual to dream up the universe in A Clockwork Orange. William Faulkner -- quick, someone, Photoshop him in a photo with Nick Cave! ;) And... that Houellebecq? Pretty damn cute.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Also:

http://www.illyria.com/tob/images/tob.jpg

Tim O'Brien, known for his novels about the Vietnam War era.

http://www.achuka.co.uk/authorpics/cormier/cormier03.jpg

Robert Cormier, whose novels I devoured when I was a preteen. (Sure, he's not at the level of some of the aforementioned authors, but I think he's just about the finest juvenile author to ever exist.)

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:46 (nineteen years ago) link

They not only look as though they'd lived the lives of Fitzgerald's protagonists

They kind of did, no "as though" needed!

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 06:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Oh yeah. I forgot about those stories I heard right around the time we were studying The Great Gatsby in high school. *laugh* Point taken, Leeeter.

― Surreal Addiction (Dee the Lurker), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

Kingsley Amis:

Pulling "Evelyn Waugh" face:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/christopherpriest/jpg/amispic.jpg

Married n Bearded:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/luckyjim/images/amis_02.jpg

"Christ, not you again":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2001/11/12/bamis112.jpeg

― jim dixon, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Dammit.

Kingsley Amis:
Pulling "Evelyn Waugh" face:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/christopherpriest/jpg/amispic.jpg

Married n Bearded:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/luckyjim/images/amis_02.jpg

"Christ, not you again":
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/graphics/2001/11/12/bamis112.jpeg

― jim dixon, Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:12 (nineteen years ago) link

Joyce:

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

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:20 (nineteen years ago) link

I'd be more than happy if this thread were just pictures of Auden. A very pleasing face to look at. Far from pretty, but there's just something about the weary knowingness in his expressions.

http://www.theambler.com/images/auden.jpg http://www.islaternura.com/APLAYA/NoEresElUnico/aLETRA/AudenWystanHugh/FOTOSAuden/auden.jpeg http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/710000/images/_710447_auden150.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Blaise Cendrars:

http://www.arquitrave.com/imagenes/blaise2.gif

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:28 (nineteen years ago) link

Wyndham Lewis:

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/lewis_wyndham.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~netaylor1/percywyndhamlewis.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Djuna Barnes:

http://www.mith2.umd.edu/WomensStudies/PictureGallery/barnes.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:31 (nineteen years ago) link

Carson McCullers:

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/images/BB/art_101090015261_1.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link

http://www.hackitectura.net/osfavelados/el_retorno/cyberpunk/kesy_mugshot.jpg

― Chris 'The Nuts' V (Chris V), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 12:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Some writers of The Great War:
http://www.locksley.com/greatwar/rgraves.jpg
Robert Graves
http://www.theofficenet.com/~jack/arts/sasoon.jpg
Siegfried Sassoon
http://www.firstworldwar.com/poetsandprose/graphics/owen2.jpg
Wilfred Owen

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:27 (nineteen years ago) link

William S. Burroughs

http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/BurroughsWilliam/burr3Med.jpg

― A / F#m / Bm / D (Lynskey), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:31 (nineteen years ago) link

http://max.mmlc.northwestern.edu/~mdenner/Demo/images/akhmatova/akhmatova1924.jpg
Anna Akhmatova

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:33 (nineteen years ago) link

G. K. Chesterton

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

― lock robster (robster), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link

H. Rider Haggard

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

― lock robster (robster), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Jimmy + Sam:

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

http://www.britannica.com/nobel/art/obeckea001p1.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

H. P. Lovecraft

http://www.vintagelibrary.com/pulp/hpl/art/lovecraft.jpg

― lock robster (robster), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Jack London looking oddly contemporary:

http://www.editorialjuventud.es/img/JackLondon2.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Céline ('Who are you lookin' at?'):

http://www.alalettre.com/Images/celine.jpg

Knut Hamsun (as a tram conductor in Chicago!):

http://www.nb.no/emigrasjon/pictures/no-nb_emidata_E2038_hi.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Two writers who were both lucky not to get shot after WWII!

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:33 (nineteen years ago) link

Alfred Jerry riding a singlespeed:

ihttp://www.antinova.cz/divadlo/jarry.gif

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

And here's another one, it's that silly man Ezra Pound:

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

(xpost)

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Whoops - Jarry!

http://www.antinova.cz/divadlo/jarry.gif

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Apparently he used to ride around carrying a loaded revolver.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:37 (nineteen years ago) link

Every bit as bonkers as he looks, it's Georg ('Crazy George') Trakl:

http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/stallknechte/trakl.jpg

... somehow I've wandered off in to poets

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey, bring Trakl back!

Isidore Ducasse - Comte de Lautreamont:

http://www.math.unifi.it/~caressa/lettere/img/lautreamont.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Gerard de Nerval (lobster sadly out of shot):

http://linant.free.fr/images/nerval.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

Who's a pretty boy then? Novalis wonders why, in 200 years time, a dodgy German prog rock band will steal his name:

http://www.helsinki.fi/hum/sala/images/novalis.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:42 (nineteen years ago) link

His bestest krautrock mate, Hoelderlin:

http://www.phil.upenn.edu/~cubowman/fichte/gallery_images/holderlin.jpeg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Another poet and another gey gaupit man, Hugh Macdiarmid:

http://www.nls.uk/writestuff/img/wee-macdiarmid.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Edward Lear, half-owl half-pussycat:

http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/bailey/learedw.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch:

http://www.onb.ac.at/ariadne/vfb/vfbimages/Sacher-Masoch_Leopold.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 15:59 (nineteen years ago) link

So... the hair... new paradigm, yeah? Eugène Ionesco in attempt at Nathan Barley style hipsterism...

http://www2.arnes.si/~ceslg7/img/FOTO20032004/Ionesco.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:04 (nineteen years ago) link

So... the hair... new paradigm, yeah? Gettin' absurd on our asses is Eugène Ionesco...

http://www2.arnes.si/~ceslg7/img/FOTO20032004/Ionesco.jpg

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:05 (nineteen years ago) link

Oops!

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link

The bald soprano himself!

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Dotty old Ivy Compton-Burnett, Gawd bless 'er:

http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/ivy/ivy_images/front195x273.gif

― Dadrock Holmes (Dada), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:11 (nineteen years ago) link

Cavafy

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/cavafy2.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:12 (nineteen years ago) link

A. J. Liebling

http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~ken/liebling3.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/keenan/beatgeneration/1965/ferlinghetti1965_c.jpg

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

Can you hear the drums Fernando?

http://www.arlindo-correia.com/pessoa.jpg

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

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