I Could Use Some Help With My Next Pic...

The one Pete took of me for my second book gave me my favourite book-signing quote: "You look so much younger in person than on your book."



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New Covers for the Classics Contest

This is kind of cool, although I think they got the 1984 cover wrong.



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Eudora Welty, Paparazza

Welty's pics of ol' Mississip.



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The Age of Aquarius is over

Now it's the Age of Ettlinger.* Yep, it's all about photography now. Nothing else matters, as the wise men of Metallica remind us.

Subject and environment are under the total control of the photographer. The composition exudes gravity, enigma, formal beauty, perfection -- and exceptionalness, as if time itself had stopped to look at the person sitting in that chair. This aura of utter isolated mysterious originality is, we are being told, what it means to be a Famous Writer. And such a photograph is what it means to be living in the Age of Ettlinger.

That's funny, I thought it was the age of war on gains in civil liberties.



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Edited by author 11-22-2005 11:29 AM
Cavafy photographed

Duane Michals's tribute to Cavafy at the Pace MacGill Gallery in NYU. Cavafy's looking pretty good, for a dead guy.

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