Roland Barthes is smoking a cigarette.

James Baldwin is smoking a cigarette.

Karl Ove Knausgaard is smoking a cigarette.

Clarice Lispector is smoking a cigarette.

Marguerite Duras is smoking a cigarette.

Susan Sontag is smoking a cigarette.

Alejandra Pizarnik is smoking a cigarette.

Paul Bowles is smoking a cigarette.

Jean Genet is smoking a cigarette.

Yukio Mishima is smoking a cigarette.

David Wojnarowicz is smoking a cigarette.

Ingeborg Bachmann is smoking a cigarette.

Roberto Bolaño is smoking a cigarette.

Samuel Beckett is smoking a cigarette.

Carson McCullers is smoking a cigarette.

Thomas Bernhard is eating an ice cream cone.

Kate Zambreno: »Autor Photo, Part One«, in: Screen Tests: Stories and Other Writing, New York et al: Harper Perennial 2019.