From Flavorwire, another contribution to the burgeoning field of author photo analysis.
Flavorwire on Author Photos
“Made Twilight look like War and Peace”
Herewith, an amazing takedown of Fifty Shades of Grey, spoken by none other than a horrified Salman Rushdie. If a quote like this isn’t a good reason to go to The New Yorker Festival, we don’t know what is.
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The Art of Encouragement
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Swimming Against Conventions
“My goal isn’t soft multiculturalism, but rather to convey a richer and fuller sense of what literature is, what the possibilities are, and to share the voices that often get excluded or silenced when we speak of ‘literature’ and ‘writing.’” Guernica interviews Counternarratives author John Keene.
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Penguin Book Cover Postcards
An eye-catching treat for fans of books, particularly the vintage paperback variety: One Hundred Penguin Book Covers in One Box.
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Essential Differences
“To the list of differences between men and women, we can add one more: the drug-dose gender gap. Doctors and researchers increasingly understand that there can be striking variations in the way men and women respond to drugs, many of which are tested almost exclusively on males.” On the strikingly persistent gender gap in pain.
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There go my plans to start smoking and have my photo taken while sitting on a sofa, puffing away, with my hand on my face.
I know, right? Author photos are torture. Mine features me smirking on a rooftop, and that was the best I could come up with. I was reading through this piece and thinking please don’t say anything about smirky Brooklyn rooftop author photos… please don’t say anything about smirky Brooklyn rooftop author photos…