The Writer on Film:
Marion Ettlinger was Terry Gross’s guest on Fresh Air yesterday, a name you’ll probably recognize less than the images she creates. Ettlinger is one of the country’s best known author photographers, specializing in those dust jacket pictures on hardcovers that put a face to an author’s words. She’s also been accused of “glamming up famously unattractive authors” which seems like kind of a silly complaint. I mean, hey, I already think Sarah Vowell is sexy, even though Ettlinger’s portrait backs me up.