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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

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Clarice Lispector:

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

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:57 (nineteen years ago) link

oh my. How oddly lovely.

― sunburned and snowblind (kenan), Monday, 21 March 2005 22:58 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Marguerite Duras

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

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:00 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

HUBERT SELBY RIP!

― andy --, Monday, 21 March 2005 23:01 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

these guys arent as funny looking as the philosophers.

― ryan (ryan), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:03 (nineteen years ago) link

Emily Dickinson

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

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:04 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Balzac

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

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:06 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Separated at birth!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Cintra Wilson:

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

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Pushkin

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

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Joris-Karl Huysmans

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

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Arthur Rimbaud

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

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:12 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Baudelaire

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

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:13 (nineteen years ago) link

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

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Antonio Tabucchi

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

― M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

Sterne:

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

― emil.y (emil.y), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link

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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 (two 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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