Visible Bookshelves In Author Photos

it looks like my hero joy williams has a james purdy shelf just like i do at home! #greatminds

http://media.vogue.com/r/w_1600/2015/12/01/00-joy-williams.jpg

nice to see Mr. Bridge in there too.

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fjoesgeekfest.files.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F11%2Fstanislawlem.jpg&f=1

major delillo section up top. we've all been there.

x-post

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fparaisocultural.files.wordpress.com%2F2013%2F07%2Fjulio-cortazar.jpg&f=1

guess you can't actually see any of those titles tho

just shelves is fine, but, yeah, it makes it more fun if you can browse a little. or snoop. in a historical way.

http://i.imgur.com/fhs5gR2.jpg

Kazimierz Brandys
http://www.polishartworld.com/download/4247/0327-06+Brandys+Kazimierz+1982.jpg

Actually Polish authors in general have this look locked down.
Zbigniew Herbert
http://panoramaliteratury.pl/entries//pics//Herbert%20Z.,%20fot.%20Langda%201963%20r.,%20-%20Ikon%20IV-359(10).jpg
Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz
http://dzieje.pl/sites/default/files/aktualnosci/slonimski_antoni.jpg
Adam Ważyk
http://culture.pl/sites/default/files/images/imported/literatura/_portrety/wazyk%20adam/wazyk%20adam%20portret%20en_4969904.jpg

My man, Naguib Mahfouz
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2F0d%2F6d%2F69%2F0d6d69ea178f5feaede079e58efc12e3.jpg&f=1

for instance, would love to see what ol' borges has going on back there...

https://dimartblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/christopher-pillitz-getty-images-1983.jpeg

complete collection of Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.guim.co.uk%2Fsys-images%2FMusic%2FPix%2Fpictures%2F2011%2F8%2F3%2F1312390807052%2FJG-Ballard-007.jpg&f=1

Luc Sante has my kinda shelf:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/08/21/t-magazine/Jeanette-Winterson-David-Hare-Jane-Smiley-writers-room.html?_r=0

Authors and maybe other book junkies contribute shelves-shots and comments here, nice:
http://www.overflowinglibrary.com/2014_03_01_archive.html

junot's shelf on the other hand...

http://yalebooks.co.uk/spreads/l/9780300170924_1.jpg

Other than his own works not quite visible but Faulkner's shelves:

http://ajourneybydesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/william-faulkner.jpg
http://tour.bisu.edu.cn/bisu/modenAmericanLiterature/pics/R201120000P94327_20120501.jpg

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/0F6B/production/_88774930_brookner_peter-jordan-alamy.jpg

Anita Brookner

(slightly bigger version here but I still can't make much out aside from War and Peace: http://ichef-1.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/cpsprodpb/1BF5/production/_88775170_brookner_peter-jordan-alamy.jpg)

http://www.marcosymarcos.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/walker-percy.jpg

Walker Percy

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-poet-alastair-reid-works-at-a-desk-in-his-booklined-apartment-new-picture-id526585741

Alastair Reid

Ishmael Reed
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Falanwking.files.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2Fishmael-reed.jpg&f=1

lol reversed

Anthony Powell

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Park-Powell-1200.jpg

want powell's books...bet he had the best books....

"shelves are for wankers"
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.benkirby.net%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FChristopher-Hitchens.jpg&f=1

A Delany specialty.
http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1433609788p5/49111.jpg http://www.cinemaqueer.com/movie%20images2/polymathbig.jpg https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRylZd5A0AHk6MaKkrEloVfVCCW36JhZFCOnjbI8QEZCSDncJLz https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSfmVnSL1MXiKaBYlnkiEe2A81bTdW7lek5mDTNx_I7Xhe6lfMl

probably the library I would be most curious to personally visit:
https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ffilmofilias.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F10%2F1-dunas-de-jodorowsky-72p.jpg&f=1

Can't make out any of the books in either of these (dunno if anyone else can?)

BSJ

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Columnist/Columnists/2010/7/28/1280312036142/bs-johnson-005.jpg

Lispector

http://www.as-coa.org/sites/default/files/styles/event_detail/public/ClariceSquare.jpg

Dennis Cooper
https://litreactor.com/sites/default/files/images/interviews/headers/denniscooper.jpg

Georges Bataille
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/GeorgesBataille.jpg

Trish Salah
http://cwila.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/TrishSalah.jpg

Yourcenar

http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000brvzHzPnz9U/s/1000/650/MARGUERITE-YOURCENAR-26-LAF172127.jpg

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/images/ic/1200x675/p01ssvnx.jpg

Brian Aldiss

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/books/2015-08/07aug/brian-aldiss-cover-xlarge.jpg

if i were brian aldiss i would have nothing but brian aldiss books on the shelves too.

trish salah's bookshelf needs help though.

i don't know why i used the word visible in the thread title. didn't want pictures of invisible shelves.

http://writerpictures.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/James-Kelman-by-Angela-Catlin.jpg

James Kelman

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02706/Edna-O_Brian-_2706395k.jpg

Edna O'Brien

totally want some of edna's books. just a hunch.

Anthony Powell is the only one who avoided paperbacks entirely.

http://www.filosofiprecari.it/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/gatto-foucault.jpg
M.F.

https://roarmag.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/MichelFoucault-e1452548123349.jpg
https://www.alfabeta2.it/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/foucault-letterato.jpg

Foucault crush books!

^^^ Michel Furcoat

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnuMrnFXYAAW2QC.jpg

"Don't try it, Michel."

Nice to see Foucault's bound collection of Metal Hurlant magazines behind him.

waugh in his alcove:

http://www.trbimg.com/img-52d83f45/turbine/la-et-jc-evelyn-waugh-collection-at-the-huntin-002

http://www.danilodemarco.it/website/wp-content/new_uploads/2011/07/003-arrabal-fernando688-cop.jpg

arrabal

http://www.nybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Georges-Perec.jpg

(Perec, if that's not obvious.)

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WxQxuGBrMjk/TfSxohK408I/AAAAAAAAAEw/fVVXhgyJbdE/s1600/Blaise_Cendrars_Bien_etre_13x18_couleur-002autops.jpg

blaise cendrars

a dapper looking robbe-grillet...

http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/images/2011/04/B703/10.jpg

wonder just how many copies of molloy one really needs:

http://somecamerunning.typepad.com/.a/6a00e5523026f58834011570eaf5ce970c-pi
&
http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/the-french-writer-and-filmmaker-alain-robbegrillet-at-his-desk-in-at-picture-id106751599

Seemingly a bit sadder than some others of her, but here you can actually see a title or two:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1024/media/images/71167000/jpg/_71167310_71167308.

Damn! Maybe it'll do this smaller of the same pic
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/640/media/images/71167000/jpg/_71167309_71167308.jpg

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_

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.

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

I think I spot Ricœur's _Time and Narrative_

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Lenin and HG Wells

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

katherine mansfield hanging with lovecraft (may not be real)

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

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...

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

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...

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.

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

so perfect.

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

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

Lanark is incredible

Xp

Clive James finally gives me something to read.

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

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.

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

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

It's a bold thread.

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/

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

j.p. donleavy (& james joyce)

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

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

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

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

And hardly ever any cover art

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

^

no way

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

Calvino

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia-cache-ec0.pinimg.com%2F736x%2Fcf%2Fbb%2F15%2Fcfbb1559381959b020da4db66fb41104.jpg&f=1

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.