Visible Bookshelves In Author Photos

Hanne Ørstavik
http://gfx.dagbladet.no/labrador/282/282403/28240394/jpg/active/978x.jpg
Can spot Solstad's Telemark novel, Sofi Oksanen's _Baby Jane_, and what I'm fairly certain is Perec's _Life: A User's Manual_

― Rimsky-Koskenkorva (Øystein), Friday, 29 July 2016 16:10 (ten years ago)

Rune Slagstad makes me feel very tidy.
http://ap.mnocdn.no/images/71ad476c-1836-4636-ade5-1752416fdfc6?fit=crop&h=1152&q=80&w=2048
I think I spot Ricœur's _Time and Narrative_. I cannot figure out what the hell is on the shelf behind the moka pot.

― Rimsky-Koskenkorva (Øystein), Friday, 29 July 2016 16:19 (ten years ago)

Kingsley Amis says, I see yr bookshelves and raise you a cat

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9ikIq625474/U1yoPju8z6I/AAAAAAAAC4I/Bh3o0sskCnU/s1600/kingsley+amis+&+cat+cropped.jpg

― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Friday, 29 July 2016 18:45 (ten years ago)

I think I spot Ricœur's _Time and Narrative_

Steiner's Language and Silence and Janik and Toulmin's Wittgenstein's Vienna spotted.

― alimosina, Friday, 29 July 2016 21:17 (ten years ago)

I think I see Schorske's Fin-de-siècle Vienna too.

― jmm, Friday, 29 July 2016 21:34 (ten years ago)

yes it is!

I cannot figure out what the hell is on the shelf behind the moka pot.

looks very much like a large bunch of dead and decaying roses to me.

― no lime tangier, Saturday, 30 July 2016 03:56 (ten years ago)

http://hiddenlanegallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Alasdair-Gray-Portrait-II-1997-Alan-Wylie.jpeg

― no lime tangier, Saturday, 30 July 2016 03:58 (ten years ago)

Alasdair Gray? Or a collector of White Dwarf circa 1985 artwork?

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Saturday, 30 July 2016 05:25 (ten years ago)

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/russian-bolshevik-leader-vladimir-lenin-and-british-author-hg-wells-picture-id464442893

Lenin and HG Wells

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Saturday, 30 July 2016 05:29 (ten years ago)

http://www.steampress.co.nz/titlefiles/monsters/mansfieldlovecraft.jpg

katherine mansfield hanging with lovecraft (may not be real)

― no lime tangier, Saturday, 30 July 2016 05:39 (ten years ago)

Willa Cather
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Van_Vechten_-_Willa_Cather.jpg/220px-Van_Vechten_-_Willa_Cather.jpg

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Saturday, 30 July 2016 07:02 (ten years ago)

Wau, Cather looking like early Renaissance painting. So are Alasdair Gray's novels actually good? I know I shouldn't judge by online plot summaries, but...

― dow, Saturday, 30 July 2016 15:41 (ten years ago)

Dennis Wheatley

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/bd/2c/b7/bd2cb7b4c060018fd06bd56b2b719d9b.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2y64OcB7dG8/Uqn1_IFTlzI/AAAAAAAABuY/OycIl9ZLAp0/s1600/dennissmokingjacket.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/68/Dennis_Wheatley_Allan_Warren.jpg/200px-Dennis_Wheatley_Allan_Warren.jpg

― Foster Twelvetrees (Ward Fowler), Saturday, 30 July 2016 16:55 (ten years ago)

Wau, Cather looking like early Renaissance painting. So are Alasdair Gray's novels actually good? I know I shouldn't judge by online plot summaries, but...

You should definitely read Lanark at least.

― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2016 16:55 (ten years ago)

Can spot Solstad's Telemark novel, Sofi Oksanen's _Baby Jane_, and what I'm fairly certain is Perec's _Life: A User's Manual_

I'm sure I see Ulysses.

― alimosina, Saturday, 30 July 2016 17:08 (ten years ago)

In the future, photos will show: writer, keyboard, monitor, Kindle or equivalent, possibly cat. No shelves.

― alimosina, Saturday, 30 July 2016 17:10 (ten years ago)

so perfect.

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/novelist-mickey-spillane-standing-beside-rack-of-paperback-editions-picture-id50369745

― scott seward, Saturday, 30 July 2016 19:18 (ten years ago)

only thing better would have been one of those metal carousel drugstore racks filled with mickey spillane.

― scott seward, Saturday, 30 July 2016 19:18 (ten years ago)

Lanark is incredible

― Οὖτις, Saturday, 30 July 2016 19:29 (ten years ago)

Clive James finally gives me something to read.

http://cdn.newsapi.com.au/image/v1/91523ebdbc07b7ab18b0da9eae6b5f23

― scott seward, Saturday, 30 July 2016 19:37 (ten years ago)

This thread has been bolded in my 'site new answers' all day so I finally came here because I felt sorry for it but I guess it's fine. As you were.

― kinder, Saturday, 30 July 2016 20:48 (ten years ago)

That emboldening has got me more than once. In fact it is kind of mildly disturbing.

― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 30 July 2016 20:49 (ten years ago)

yeah i don't know what the deal is with that.

― scott seward, Saturday, 30 July 2016 20:50 (ten years ago)

It's a bold thread.

― jmm, Saturday, 30 July 2016 20:51 (ten years ago)

this is a nice profile. and there is a nice bookshelf shot. my favorite part: larry's home as a child didn't have a single book in it, and, now, 80 years later, he has filled that house with books in every room.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/the-culture/larry-mcmurtry-minor-regional-novelist/

― scott seward, Sunday, 31 July 2016 02:11 (ten years ago)

http://www2.advertiser.ie/images/2010/06/27319.jpg

j.p. donleavy (& james joyce)

― no lime tangier, Sunday, 31 July 2016 02:49 (ten years ago)

dude looks pretty calm even with zombie Joyce leaning in for a taste of sweet, sweet brains

― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 31 July 2016 02:55 (ten years ago)

McMurtry is or was a very active indie book dealer too, at least one shop

― dow, Sunday, 31 July 2016 23:02 (ten years ago)

more than a shop! half a town of book shop.

― scott seward, Monday, 1 August 2016 00:50 (ten years ago)

thread reminded me that French books (and as a result french bookshelves) are ugly as hell. there are like three publishers and they all publish white spines with same text. makes for the blandest libraries

― flopson, Monday, 1 August 2016 02:22 (ten years ago)

And hardly ever any cover art

― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Monday, 1 August 2016 03:55 (ten years ago)

idk most book design (in the us at least) is ugly as hell, maybe it's better to just go the french route

― sacral intercourse conducive to vegetal luxuriance (askance johnson), Monday, 1 August 2016 13:22 (ten years ago)

― The New Original Human Beatbox (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 August 2016 14:19 (ten years ago)

no way

― flopson, Monday, 1 August 2016 16:03 (ten years ago)

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/3029684-in-a-room-lined-with-bookshelves-quintana-roo-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=OCUJ5gVf7YdJQI2Xhkc2QCAwsgIaw2ppHSUpExLXi2Msaz7S4x03Ipnq9LsB%2FU2ZBdi88Ll0p5FlH1GjT0fSr8rIShQEbvRqg97RusSOs9k%3D

― johnny crunch, Monday, 1 August 2016 16:33 (ten years ago)

Calvino

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― Οὖτις, Monday, 1 August 2016 19:54 (ten years ago)

Lessing may look sad but she's got Healthy Pleasures, by Ornstein and Sobel.

Brookner has Colette's... letters?

Percy has The Orchard Keeper by McCarthy.

Powell's got Bruccoli's bio of Fitzgerald (easy catch).

The Didion-Dunnes have The People's Almanac. Also, a very big dog.

― alimosina, Friday, 5 August 2016 00:49 (ten years ago)

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