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Do you mean Stewart, Ronny? ;)

It's David Mitchell. Now I think we need to go back to AquaBlue's last pic, because I'm pretty sure it's not Fitzgerald. He was around in the early 20th century, and that pic looks mid-late 19th century to me at best... Herman Melville?

That's Philip K Dick, Stewart. Somebody else set another one.

Ooh, OK, here goes: I'm going out now, so if someone gets it, feel free to carry on without me!

Oh, can I do an either/or? I think it's Thomas Pynchon. (But might conceivably be Salinger.)

Oh oh oh oh! I know this one...but have to go and have something to eat while I think about it.

It was just a little itty-bitty namecheck here, ds, in the (London) Times. It's near the end. I meant the UK national press by the way.

Yep, clue please!

Good question. mehastings I think also has personal stuff going on at the minute, which is why she's stepped down from the Book of the Month think for the time being. I'm sad about this and Halo's departure as they were both always very decent to me. I PMed all the mods and Darren a few weeks...

Siri Hustvedt? Great quiz, by the way, AquaBlue! EDIT: No, it's not Siri Hustvedt, I checked. Like Stewart, I recognise her but can't put a name to it. Is she a novelist? For some reason she makes me think of some feminist-type non-fiction writer but I'm not sure who.

Just a heads-up to anyone in the UK who hasn't read this: there's a nice new edition just published as part of Vintage's 'East' series (of contemporary Japanese fiction). At £4.99, it's also a bit of a bargain.

It ain't a joke, Zolipara - this guy's stuff is available on Amazon. Of course, none of the books have managed to achieve a sales rank, which means nobody has ever bought any of them - and I don't think it's because Ten Thousand Penises In Your Ear, for instance, costs $31 for 100 pages...

No, sirmyk, it's not you that's missing something around here... I so agree, with the tiny proviso of changing the words "most bizarre" to the word "worst."

I can honestly say that this is well up to the standard we have come to expect from WolflArsen.

Depends on what you mean by 'actual companies.' The imprints all have their own editorial teams and their own 'identity' so just because they're owned by the same global conglomerate, doesn't mean they're effectively the same. Usually they are under the same umbrella solely because they've...

Genius is so close to madness. But not this close.

I particularly like Ten Thousand Penises In Your Ear (who wouldn't?) - click the title to read an extract. Who'd have thunk the Caps Lock key could have such a crucial role in the creative process? Or how about Slam! Boom! Crash! which is described as "wilder than a Nabokov novel" - ooh...

You're entitled to your opinion, Wolfie (Freedom for Tooting!!), but you seriously damage your credibility (if you had any left for the good folks here) by blithely denouncing without explanation one of the most acclaimed poets of the 20th century. Eliot, Yeats, Frost, MacNeice, Auden, to name...

Aubade Philip Larkin I work all day, and get half-drunk at night Waking at four to the soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain edges will grow light. Till then I see what's really always there: Unresting death, a whole day nearer now, Making all thought impossible but how And...

I never thought I'd say this, eyez0nme, but: I agree with you. For some reason the hardbacks usually have normal type and then the paperbacks have big spacing and big margins. Even a great literary work like Andrea Levy's Small Island gained 100 pages in transition from hardback to paperback...