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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

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

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

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

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

Samuel Pepys

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

M. White (Miguelito), Monday, 21 March 2005 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:09 (nineteen years ago) link

Czeslaw Milosz

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


gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:10 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:14 (nineteen years ago) link

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

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

Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:15 (nineteen years ago) link

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 (nineteen years ago) link

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

ryan (ryan), Tuesday, 22 March 2005 01:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen years ago) link

"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 (nineteen 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...
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...

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