coolest-looking author on the back of this book of interviews from 1974

Sontag obviously wins through rocking the cigarette & polo neck look, though is Hawkes wearing a duffel coat?

None of the Above option plz

What book is it?

oh yeah I should have included a "they all look lame" option

let's pretend a vote for barth is a vote for that option

xp it's called the new fiction: interviews with innovative american writers

sukenick's looks like he was genuinely not expecting anyone

Feeling Barthelme's beard not to be substantial enough. Sontag it is.

Ronald Sukenick
Never heard of this guy.

Sukenick looks like he could be in the dBs or a reunion line up of Big Star

least flattering hairdo = gardner

Gardner looks pretty cool emerging from behind a curtain.

Sontag has kind of an Eleanor Bron in Help! look going on.

Ha, feel like I've thought something like that many times before but it never quite surfaced.

Sontag easy, tho I'm curious as to what exactly Ishmael Reed is wearing

Looks like he is going to a martial arts class!

wanna vote Gass but this is obviously Sontag

Gass, Sontag and Wolfe look the most electable in current US politics.

gardner looks truculent as you'd expect

Joyce Carol Oates, because it looks like an homage to Eraserhead. (Or vice versa)

Reed is like a pissed off George Duke

http://i.imgur.com/7OZaGbx.jpg

reed's photo is well-positioned

Joyce Carol Oates totally looks like a character from a Tim Burton film (some cross between Shelly Duvall and Winona Ryder). Never seen a pic of her with that look, it's pretty striking.

Sontag, Gass, Oates by far the best row.

Feel like Hawkes is one of those guys who writes from the points of view of various sinister personae but in real life probably projected some kind of folksy friendliness (like Iggy Pop, sorta?). Seems like there was an anecdote related to this I need to track down.

Does anyone else here even like Hawkes apart from me? Has anyone even read him? Seem to recall starting thread on him that sank like stone.

Best Thread Ever, btw.

never read him, I have a copy of the lime twig (with approbatory quote from flannery o'connor on the front) that I've been meaning to get around to forever. Was reminded of this reading barth's essay on him the other month but still haven't picked it up

Holy Smokes. I got it not quite right but the full article is here, incredibly badly OCRed and rendered, but amazing nonetheless:
https://archive.org/stream/brownalumnimagaz982brow/brownalumnimagaz982brow_djvu.txt
Look for "What Jack Thought," by Meg Wolitzer.

This is what I remembered in particular and searched for:

He sometimes seemed not to live in the same
material universe his students and their characters
inhabited. In one story, a character oftered another
character some "Sara Lee," and I remember that Jack
said, "What's Sara Lee?" having no idea that it was a
brand name of frozen pastries, thinking, perhaps, that
it was a person.

Please allow me to repost a link to a letter defending his honor by another author who is a little overlooked in these parts: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1971/dec/02/a-put-on/
/street team

Tlic Lime Twig

I knew that it would be sorrentino before I clicked!

Because of the /street_team tag?

Tlic Lime Twig

from the barth essay:

[q]"Plus," the writer Mary Robison once said, concluding her introduction of [Hawkes] to an audience in Baltimore, "he wears the most adorable clothes, and anyone who doesn't think so can go straight to hell!"

oops

"Plus," the writer Mary Robison once said, concluding her introduction of [Hawkes] to an audience in Baltimore, "he wears the most adorable clothes, and anyone who doesn't think so can go straight to hell!"

Jerzy Kosinski probably had the biggest decline in reputation?

want to say deservedly, I quite like his look here tho

Because of the /street_team tag?

Tlic Lime Twig

Huh?

― Dear Catastrophe Theory Waitress (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, September 27, 2014 4:20 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

missed this post - yeah, I remembered you starting a thread about sorrentino before & he seemed a likely candidate to be sticking up for hawkes. (the other thing is just me loling at the crappy scanning of that article you posted.)

[ remember one
such story from
Jacks class, in which
a man says good-bye to

his wife and goes out for the day. The point of view
cut coolly back and forth between the wife at home
making mashed potatoes and the husband oft some-
where performing oral sex on another man. I know I
was a little bit shocked by the story
at the time, while teeling that as a
^^'^'^'^^" piece ot tiction it wasn't very

strong. I can't remember what Jack
thought ot the story, or even, for
that matter, what he thought of
most of our stories. What struck me
then, and strikes me all the more
cieeply now, is how he gave the
work ot beginners the full freight ot
his attention and respect.

^the new fiction

Joyce Carol Oates

(Xp) Okay, thanks, now I see. There are actually ten hits for "tlic" including "Eugene O'Neill's 'Tlic Hairy Ape'"

Tlic=the new 'teh'

I can't help not thinking of the drivel some of these writers have written, cancelling out how 'cool' they may look.

c∞l

Best literary name goes to William Gass, though.

(It's surprising how many of their last names are real, recogizable words.)

I can't help not thinking of the drivel some of these writers have written, cancelling out how 'cool' they may look.

william H gass svp xp

Haha

H for homer

http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/books-and-literature/book-blog/st-literary-excellence-award-goes-to-william-gass/article_e658ec89-d9f0-511b-9484-5eaea2743ee9.html

To a lifetime of honors, add one more for 90-year-old writer William H. Gass.

Next month, he'll receive the first Tradition of Literary Excellence Award in connection with the Lit in the Lou book festival.

Warning, page is a bit hinky.

Lit in the Lou sounds like something that happened at yesterday's ILB London FAP.

gass in the lou

William Gass looks like Steve Buscemi with a bad wig.

my vote's for Oates or Sontag. The guys look like typical seventies fortsomethings who came to the sixties too late.

Joyce Carol Oates

― Karl Malone, Saturday, September 27, 2014 1:13 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^ what a cool pic

Alfred otm. Hawkes actually looks like Michael Caine in that picture.

JCO often seems to be cultivating a pre-Raphaelite look.

Sontag got a lot flak in certain circles for her Decay of Cinema article but afterwards she could often be seen at screenings around town, at Anthology or MoMA, with either a wig or hair cropped supershort because of her latter day rounds of chemo, sometimes chatting happily with the other people queued up on line to get in. Was kind of inspiring really.

I wonder who Barth is serenading

"The Muse"

http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMTQ4ODg1NTg1MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTYwNjI3ODM3._V1_SX640_SY720_.jpg

i like the enigmatic look on kosinski's face. but will have to go with oates cause damn that is an awesome photo.

I like how Gass looks afraid of Oates

and yeah, if this is just about photos, then Oates wins this round fer sure, that high contrast blown out none-more-goth thing owns everybody else

Yes, none-more-goth good description I take back "pre-Raphaelite," for this particular photo at least.

btw the sukenick photo is credited to joe david bellamy who is the editor/main interviewer of this book, so it seems entirely possible that he did just snap him without warning as he answered the door

Wolfe's tie looks really gross to me for some reason.

would post pretty much all of these to It's the 1p3 What Do You WISH You Looked Like Thread

not really feeling the Donald Barthelme photo, he should have stuck with this look imo:

http://www.quotessays.com/images/donald-barthelme-3.jpg

http://www.quotessays.com/images/donald-barthelme-3.jpg

there's a picture of don b from the 50s that looks not unlike treesh

Barth looks cool in a West Coast jazz-pianist sort of way

http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/mfawriting/Read3.html

^would smash

I love that Meg Wolitzer article. It makes me wish I was young and excitable.

http://archive.9news.com/images/640/360/2/assetpool/images/090415121210_john-barth.jpg

Oates has the proud, resilient expression of a woman who will write six novels by the time the year ends.

lol

oates vs. reed imo

Best part of this thread is the total lack of interest in popular dorm-poster-and-meme icon Vonnegut.

lol @ this thread. If we were just going for favorite author it would be Ishmael Reed in a heartbeat but for some reason he looks like an annoyed karate instructor here so going with Sontag instead for the turtleneck and cigarette held JUST SO

Kosinski for his "you must be fucking kidding me" look

John Barth looks like the dude who got his head asploded in Scanners.

Jerzy Kosinski is giving me Remington Steele vibes

he looks cute tbh

digging john gardner's klaus kinski prince valiant steez + .. necklace?

his writing sounds terrible tho

His criticism is a hoot if hilariously rong

I'd ask that nobody take writing into account tho I think everyone got that

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

eames chair ftw

Tlic
Okay just saw this word in its other, intentional, usage.

✓

Daniel Johnston looking p bitchin bottom left

Thread of missing OP photo