Yay!

I'v always loved the Truman Capote shot. Ellroy has a great suit on.

Richard Ford and Joyce Carol Oates (and of course Capote) have such striking, instantly recognizable (if you've seen them once) faces.

Just finished her. Today I read some of his at the doctor's office and while traveling in the car. Just started her tonight.

I had no idea one of my favorite authors was also kinda hot.

OK, this is a photography thread, so I can participate. Seriously, the Truman Capote shot to me shows how tortured he was. The James Ellroy shot is umm kinda not the best, though I do like him as an author. The Melissa Bank photo is a lot of fun. I think that most of these are really great portraits, I think that when you know the author, you put your own impression from reading them on them. The Francine Prose photo is hot, having never read her before...

Great! I liked the David Gates (not too sure about that guitar, though) and Francine Prose shots best, I think. I was very pleased to see Jeffrey Eugenides, one of my great favorites. (I wonder how he pronounces his name? I always read it the Greek way: Ev-ghen-EED-ees.)

I actually found the Melissa Bank photo, just... sort of strange. The Amy Hempel portrait was nicely dramatic, but of course she has a nicely dramatic face. The Tom Wolfe was just toooo "Tom Wolfe" - though this was taken in the early '80s, so I guess we hadn't already been unbearably swamped with Wolfe being Wolfe. Or had we?

"so I guess we hadn't already been unbearably swamped with Wolfe being Wolfe. Or had we?"

I had been so swamped.

Eraly 80s? Yeah, there was swampage.

I also liked the Prose photo. Her lines look so clean and sharp, and having read her, it fits nicely in my mind with her writing.

I love Denis Johnson and I double love that he looks like an older, curmudgeonly Jack Black.

(taz, I say you-jen-eh(like meh)-deez, but I've always wondered to my correctness. Either way? Middlesex is so beautiful I could die.)

WRT David Gates: you do know that he was one of the guys in Bread, right?

We do know that bmarkey but we did not want to bring it up. ;)

Ah. Well then. As you were...

hee.

According to this post (scroll down, near the bottom of the list), Jeffrey pronounces it "yu-GIN-e-dees". I knew it would need to be pronounced differently, but I wasn't sure how. I can see it. It basically follows the english pronunciation of Greek words like "euphoria", and "eugenics".