Visible Bookshelves In Author Photos

Anthony Powell is the only one who avoided paperbacks entirely.

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M.F.

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Foucault crush books!

^^^ Michel Furcoat

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"Don't try it, Michel."

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

waugh in his alcove:

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arrabal

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(Perec, if that's not obvious.)

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blaise cendrars

a dapper looking robbe-grillet...

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wonder just how many copies of molloy one really needs:

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

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Damn! Maybe it'll do this smaller of the same pic
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Hanne Ørstavik
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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.
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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

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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.

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

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Lenin and HG Wells

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katherine mansfield hanging with lovecraft (may not be real)

Willa Cather
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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

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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.

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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.

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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/

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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

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Calvino

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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.