By Tom
Today was the conference day of BookExpo, but I didn't make it close to the Javits Center, thanks to visits with Oliver Sacks and Stieg Larsson's editors, which you'll be able to see the fruits of when I get back home to my editing software. And my first visit to the offices of my long-time publishing crush, Farrar Straus Giroux. No, not their old Dickensian cold-water offices, as described in Talk of the Town a few years back, but the newish ones. I got the full tour, which included an impromptu identification quiz of the many author photos lining the walls (which seem to include a Nobel Prize winner in every few frames). I'm happy to report I did pretty well (I've been studying for that quiz for the last 20 years!), but there were a few stumpers I kicked myself about when the answer was revealed. Here's one to the right I couldn't get on first glance. Can you, despite the handicaps of my fuzzy Hipstamatic phone photo and the strange blue rectangle reflected in the glass, identify this young writer? (Hint: he has a new book coming out this fall.)
And for extra credit: can you also ID, just on the basis of the right half of her portrait, the novelist to his left? --Tom
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