“Looking at these photos, I get the sense that the writers (even the young ones) are long gone, lost to an era when people gazed longingly out of train windows, mailed handwritten letters, or actually read books. I can’t imagine any of these writers alive, moving their mouths, checking their email, eating dinner.”
Edan Lepucki takes a hilarious look at author photos over at The Millions: “About the Author.”
(via @Danchaon)
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