I came across this fantastic gallery in the Rumpus today and had to share. The artist Timothy Lee Taranto illustrates literature’s most serious authors in a less than serious light. Check out our favorite, the “Vonnugget,” below, and many more. …
Tag: Ernest Hemingway
A Writer’s Best Friend: Ten Authors and Their Pets
For many of us, pets offer companionship, love, and a patient ear to listen to the wild thoughts we cannot share with fellow members of our species. It’s no wonder, then, that so many artists crave the company of furry …
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Top Ten Famous Last Words and Final Stops: Writers and Their Gravesites
Everyone has a different way of coping with what George Bernard Shaw called “that troublesome business.” The promise of death should motivate us to live everyday to the fullest because as Jim Morrison aptly noted, “No one here gets out alive.” So …
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The Greatest Books of All Time
Is it possible to rank the world’s best literature? Well, no, and we’re certainly not going to try. Although in 2007, one publication did. Now we ask, did it get it right? The Top Ten: Writers Pick Their Favorite Books is …
Hemingway’s Last Farewell
“But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn’t any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked …