The New Yorker has begun publishing photos of its fiction writers. Sure we’re an increasingly visual culture, and promoting the writer is all part of the package. “But there is something different about fiction, which depends for its power on our willingness to believe that it is as much about the reader’s life as it is the writer’s. Linking too readily the author’s image with the work seems to make the story more disposable. It’s just another product, just another package deal.” – Chicago Tribune