errequatro
Reader
We have been forgetting our own nominee for the WLF prize.
Fleur Jaeggy.
I mean, cor blimey!
Fit AF!
Look at those lips!
Fleur Jaeggy.
I mean, cor blimey!
Fit AF!
Look at those lips!
Good Looking Writers
- Thread starter Ben Jackson
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Leseratte
Well-known member
Fleur Jaeggy probably was fascinating with that eternal schoolgirl look of hers.We have been forgetting our own nominee for the WLF prize.
Fleur Jaeggy.
I mean, cor blimey!
Fit AF!
Look at those lips!
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We are talking exclusively about literary writers, right? Because quite a handful of celebrities would make the claim that they are “writers” with a very generous understanding of the word…
I agree about Mieko Kawakami. I also love her sense of style. She is so chic.
Stevie B
Current Member
Ben Jackson
Well-known member
If she's a lecturer, I suspect one of her students will have fantasies about her. She's crazy (I mean beauty wise). I agree with you guys about her.
Patrick Murtha
Reader
For my money, Frank Norris is the foxiest novelist in American literature.
This is a dangerous topic for me, as I have a “type” and I am likely to bore you all blind. ?
This is a dangerous topic for me, as I have a “type” and I am likely to bore you all blind. ?
Patrick Murtha
Reader
I’ll allow myself one more at the moment, as he is much more obscure: the French novelist Roger Nimier (1925-1962). Died in a car crash at age 35 (those French and autos, I don’t know). Co-founder of the anti-existentialist movement, the Hussards, after Nimier’s novel The Blue Hussar, one of two books of his to make it into English (the other is non-fiction, The Versailles I Love). I would like to know more about Nimier. There is a prize named for him, still given: “An award that rewards a young author whose spirit is in line with the literary work of Roger Nimier.”
Patrick Murtha
Reader
Julien Green, born in Paris to American parents on September 6, 1900, so it’s his birthday today.
Patrick Murtha
Reader
BTW, I agree, she is really pretty! I am not entirely insensitive to feminine charm. ?
I have always liked what Camille Paglia said, that beauty is a universal human value, it was not invented in some office on Madison Avenue.
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Stevie B
Current Member
Julien Green is someone I've wanted to read for years. Is there a book of his you'd recommend, in particular?
Patrick Murtha
Reader
Well, I’ve only read one, Adrienne Mesurat. It was very impressive, albeit a downer. I just posted about it an hour ago in the Green thread.
Stevie B
Current Member
Although Frank Norris doesn't register as foxy to my eye, I will pay homage to his impressive full head of hair.
Patrick Murtha
Reader
^ Yes, great hair! He could write a little, too. (Really when it comes to Norris, I am just a panting fanboy.)
Patrick Murtha
Reader
Adolfo Bioy Casares, born on this date, September 15, in 1914…
Ludus
Reader
Qué hombre guapísimo, la puta madre.
Stevie B
Current Member
I've only read McTeague, but I recall really enjoying it. Any recommendations for a follow up?
Patrick Murtha
Reader
Oh, The Octopus, definitely. Such a fantastic book.
Among the rest, Blix is really charming, a turn-of-the-century rom-com, and I rate the bleak Vandover and the Brute much more highly than most people. Moran of the Lady Letty is an entertaining potboiler. I haven’t read A Man’s Woman or The Pit yet (but soon!).
Among the rest, Blix is really charming, a turn-of-the-century rom-com, and I rate the bleak Vandover and the Brute much more highly than most people. Moran of the Lady Letty is an entertaining potboiler. I haven’t read A Man’s Woman or The Pit yet (but soon!).
Patrick Murtha
Reader
It is puzzling to me that no one has ever seen fit to make a proper movie adaptation of The Octopus (there was a 1915 short, now lost). The book is so intensely proto-cinematic.