SpaceCadet
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"1. If you're unsure who this author is, take a Pole. (Love this hipster pic!)"
I still can't figure who this can be. Any guess?
I still can't figure who this can be. Any guess?
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Stevie B
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It's Tadeusz Konwicki, an author I've yet to read. Anyone have any thoughts regarding a good starting point?
Ben Jackson
Well-known member
Aside from say Woolf and Plath, this is one of the most beautiful writers I've seen. Maybe we should create a thread on beautiful female writers. What do you guys think?
Stevie B
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An "Authors Photos" thread already exists. You could post there or create a new own. By the way, I used to be smitten with Siri Hustvedt and thought her husband Paul Auster was a very lucky man, as he appeared to be many years her senior (perhaps old enough to be her father). I just checked, though, and was surprised to learn that the difference in age is only seven years.
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Leseratte
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"Good looking writers", would be more encompassing, I think.
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Liam
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@Leseratte: Yes, let's not discriminate, shall we???
My vote for the most attractive writer ever has already gone to the young Jack Kerouac, I think.
@Stevie B: So, what you're saying is that Auster just happens to look like shit!! ?
My vote for the most attractive writer ever has already gone to the young Jack Kerouac, I think.
@Stevie B: So, what you're saying is that Auster just happens to look like shit!! ?
Stevie B
Current Member
On a positive note, I'll say Siri Hustvedt looks much younger than her biological age (though I do think that Auster, like singer Willie Nelson, looked older when he was younger). At least he's not the lecher I originally thought he might be, and it's nice to see the couple has now been married for over 40 years.
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tiganeasca
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Well, I for one have always thought Wallace Stegner a pretty good looking guy--though I think we're beginning to get a little too far afield from the actual topic of the thread.
tiganeasca
Moderator
"More mature" is good, I think. "Deceased," perhaps, not so much. ?
Liam
Administrator
On a different note, I find the young French writer Edouard Louis absolutely adorable(-looking),
I became interested in him shortly after his novel History of Violence won some prize or other, but the subject matter sounded SO visceral that, at the time, I didn't think I'd had the mental wherewithal to tackle it. Might give him another chance soon!
I became interested in him shortly after his novel History of Violence won some prize or other, but the subject matter sounded SO visceral that, at the time, I didn't think I'd had the mental wherewithal to tackle it. Might give him another chance soon!
Bartleby
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he does look adorable! never stopped to google him. I don't mind visceral writing, but I remember once taking a look at his books and the style seemed too... simple? ordinary? IDK. maybe it's just one of those cases where the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. I sure hope it is. has anyone read him?On a different note, I find the young French writer Edouard Louis absolutely adorable(-looking),
I became interested in him shortly after his novel History of Violence won some prize or other, but the subject matter sounded SO visceral that, at the time, I didn't think I'd had the mental wherewithal to tackle it. Might give him another chance soon!
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tiganeasca
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Take a stroll down memory lane...go back to page one of this thread and take your time. There are 22 pages of pictures awaiting your perusal. And there are some, um, interesting pictures!
tiganeasca
Moderator
If I were to post an image of these gentlemen as "mature" men, thye would be instantly recognizable. But as young men, perhaps not so much. (Too bad they don't have cats in their arms, but we can't have everything....)
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Stevie B
Current Member
My first reaction was that it could be a young Solzhenitsyn. Then I read your clue, and I thought it could be Natsume Soseki. Unfortunately, it doesn't look anything like Soseki in his older years. Now, I can't even decide whether or not the guy in the picture is Asian. ?
