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10 comments to "The Naked Truth: Authors Who Write in the Buff."
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Sean Gandert
January 31st, 2007 at
8:52 pm
Also of note: Terry Jones of Monty Python fame.
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Sam
February 1st, 2007 at
10:39 am
And Sherwood Anderson, as described (not graphically, thankfully) in Kim Townsend’s bio of the author.
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D.T. Shindler
February 1st, 2007 at
2:36 pm
Also add Harlan Ellison — multi-award-winning American fantasist, author of “‘Repent Harlequin! Said The Tick Tock Man” and “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream” — who, when younger, liked to ocassionally write while starkers. One instance of such behavior –writing “Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes” while sitting naked in a Las Vegas Hotel room — resulted in his contracting pneumonia as a result! He’s still around, still writing, and was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature.
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Mojo Yugen
February 1st, 2007 at
4:23 pm
Victor Hugo sat around nude all day and the ONLY thing he could find to do was write?
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N. Q.
February 7th, 2007 at
10:42 am
I’m pretty sure that Douglas Adams (Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) wrote naked too.
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February 8th, 2007 at
10:11 am
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clair
February 8th, 2007 at
10:18 am
I think it was mentioned in the New Yorker or the Times (?) that Alan Greenspan used to work in the bathtub. Think of all the naked memo writers!
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kelly
February 8th, 2007 at
10:19 am
Interesting how very many of these authors are men, isn’t it?
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maki
February 8th, 2007 at
1:51 pm
You didn’t include maybe the most famous nude writer…Jean-Paul Marat, journalist, propagandist, etc. of the French Revolution. He had Very Itchy Skin which he thought he had contracted while hiding out in the sewers of Paris (though some modern day people think he might have suffered from celiac disease) and the only place he could be comfortable was sitting in the bathtub. Therefore, he did mostof his writing while in the bath, and he was murdered in that state by Charlotte Corday, as immortalized in a painting by David.
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KaneCitizen
February 8th, 2007 at
11:31 pm
Don’t forget historian Forrest McDonald. Booknotes Interview:
LAMB: If we could see you in your environment writing this book, what would we see?
McDONALD: You’d see me writing in the nude most of the time.
LAMB: In the nude?
McDONALD: Yes. We live in total isolation out in the country. They don’t even read the electric meter because the electric man can’t find it. We have to read our own meter. We’ve got wonderful isolation, and it’s warm most of the year in Alabama and why wear clothes? I mean, they’re just a bother. You’d see me sitting on the porch. We have a house that’s mainly glass and otherwise screen and sitting out on the porch with a big 8-and-a-half-by-14 yellow tablet and writing. I write it out by hand. My wife, who is a very fine harpsichordist and has become a fantastic typist, then transcribes. I do a lot of editing before I turn it over to her, and then she edits with her fingers as she goes along. So we’re really at a third or fourth draft by the time we get a first typed draft. We never use word processors, and then we’ll let it sit and edit it some more. I’ll keep on writing.
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