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Something to think about! RT @norton_fiction: RT @EdanL My essay about bad author photos on @the_millions today: http://bit.ly/1fnAjV 12 days ago |
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RT @VillageBksBham A question we quite often ask: What is up with some author photos? http://bit.ly/29nCh3 26 days ago |
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via @DanChaon (who's author photo is fine) RT @EdanL My essay about bad author photos on @the_millions today: http://bit.ly/1fnAjV 27 days ago |
Linklog: Checkout autobiographers, the tone of Richard Powers, and more
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk —
Two former supermarket employees compare memoirs. • The music of Richard Powers coming to a decision. • Author picture fantasies. • Stephen Poole offers a sceptical guide to contemporary usage of the word "sceptic", beginning with a disdainfully careful use of the word "versifier". ...
In the Ether
The Second Pass —
... ” . . . Edan Lepucki considers the anxieties of the author photo, and particularly the stunning(ly goofy) work of Marion Ettlinger. (“Clearly, the writer is trying to appear thoughtful. Most of the time, though, they look like they’re starring in a pain killer ad.”) . . . The evolution of ...
“My Most Embarrassing Fantasy”
The Rumpus.net —
“Looking at these photos, I get the sense that the writers (even the young ones) are long gone, lost to an era when people gazed longingly out of train windows, mailed handwritten letters, or actually read books. I can’t imagine any of these writers alive, moving their mouths, checking their email, eating dinner.”
Edan Lepucki takes on author photos over at The Millions: “About the Author.”
(via @Danchaon)
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On silly author photos
Bookninja —
The Millions has a funny piece on the absurdities of some jacket photos. Listen, I once had a photographer ask me to climb up on a ledge on Susan Sontag’s roof so he could get the Empire State Building in the shot. We do what we’re told when people pay attention to us. There are a few of Ettlinger’s photos I like. The full-body shots are better than the close-ups. Take the one, for instance, of David Foster Wallace ; his plaid jacket, his downward gaze, and the sky above, create a lovely, even haunting, composition. Or the one, of James Ellroy : he’s gone whole hog with ...
Thursday Morning LitLinks
Author Scoop —
... calls all the hand-wringing over sexism in crime fiction a “red herring”. (Guardian Books Blog)
Relatives of men believed to have been executed and buried with the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca are “delighted” that work is underway to exhume the grave. (AP)
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