Portraits of the Author

Paul Rudnick chooses six jackets

I've published my first novel, Social Disease, and I've learned my lesson. Forget nuance, second-person narrative, structure—the author's photo is everything. Think Capote, divine on that divan, John Irving, hunkable in wrestling togs, and oh those Joyce Carol Earrings. My next book? The first chapter's roughed out, it's time to make some decisions about the dust jacket. I dashed to Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, lensman extraordinaire, and we shot the works. . .

Paul Ann Rudnick lives in her charming whitewashed kitchen in Vermont, with an Amish quilt and her houseplant, Ariadne. She is currently completing a novel based on the blouse she was wearing when Saigon fell. "Sometimes 1 feel so much," whispers Paul Ann, "that I have to eat all the Haagen-Dazs in the Cumberland Farms freezer."

Pancho Rudnick has been dubbed "The Marcel Proust of Valet Parking." "Nobody wants to read about icky, dreary poor people," quips Pancho. "I wish they would all just buy my book and die.",Pancho's platinum sellers include Gold Cards, Inside Boca Raton, and Aromas of Beverly Hills.

Howdy "Cooler" Rudni ick is a former Rhodes scholar now living o n "five thousand acres of Montana reality." His picaresque romps include Pueblo Stupe tr, Chisum Jism, and Empty Cattle; his essays will be published as Beer Bellies and Big One: f. Cooter has two sons, Lubbock and Flatbed; hi e is married to the poet and model Kelly Bjorn.

Pajama Easton Rudnick has been hailed as "the voice of a new generation" by his publicist. His novel. Less than Two Hundred Pages, depicts a depraved society where teenagers have everything, and whine. His collection. Slaves of New York Magazine, details an amoral vortex of too many parties, too many clubs, and too many interviews. Pajama's phone messages have been optioned for a feature Film.

P. Scott Rudnick epitomizes the Jazz Age. when he and his mad. sensual, pushy wife, Yetta. annoyed citizens on three continents. Doomed, P. Scott died at twenty-five, at the request of his eager biographers. Although P. Scott completed only a single novella, the eight thousand titles on his life include Airsick in Paradise: Crossing the Channel with Scott and Yetta: Dark Genius, Lite Beer: The Lost Years: and the revisionist My Name Is Yetta Pearlman.

P. M. Rudnick is best known for his acclaimed collection of short stories. Hey, Did I Tell You About My Mother?, all of which appeared in The New Yorker, yes. The New Yorker. His story "Not Crying, but Weeping" received the O. Henry Award for Short Fiction and the O. Boy Medallion for Pond Imagery.