Comments on: The Naked Truth: Authors Who Write in the Buff. http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/ The Neat Side of the Web Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:07:55 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Brian O'Mara-Croft, Author, Lost in the Hive http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-1869131 Brian O'Mara-Croft, Author, Lost in the Hive Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:11:24 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-1869131 I'd write in the nude as well, if it would sell books. I'd write in the nude as well, if it would sell books.

]]> By: KaneCitizen http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-75308 KaneCitizen Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:31:00 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-75308 Don't forget historian Forrest McDonald. <a href="http://www.booknotes.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1199" rel="nofollow">Booknotes Interview</a>: 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. 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.

]]> By: maki http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-75198 maki Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:51:09 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-75198 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. 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.

]]> By: kelly http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-75141 kelly Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:19:27 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-75141 Interesting how very many of these authors are men, isn't it? Interesting how very many of these authors are men, isn't it?

]]> By: clair http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-75140 clair Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:18:51 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-75140 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! 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!

]]> By: ad-nonsense http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-75137 ad-nonsense Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:11:49 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-75137 You have to love the adsense ads; Young Nude Find Young Nude! Buy Young Nude on eBay I thought ebay banned that sort of selling. You have to love the adsense ads;

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]]> By: N. Q. http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-74797 N. Q. Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:42:22 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-74797 I'm pretty sure that Douglas Adams (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) wrote naked too. I'm pretty sure that Douglas Adams (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) wrote naked too.

]]> By: Mojo Yugen http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-72938 Mojo Yugen Thu, 01 Feb 2007 21:23:13 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-72938 Victor Hugo sat around nude all day and the ONLY thing he could find to do was write? Victor Hugo sat around nude all day and the ONLY thing he could find to do was write?

]]> By: D.T. Shindler http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-72917 D.T. Shindler Thu, 01 Feb 2007 19:36:23 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-72917 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. 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.

]]> By: Sam http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-72812 Sam Thu, 01 Feb 2007 15:39:53 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-72812 And Sherwood Anderson, as described (not graphically, thankfully) in Kim Townsend's bio of the author. And Sherwood Anderson, as described (not graphically, thankfully) in Kim Townsend's bio of the author.

]]> By: Sean Gandert http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/comment-page-1/#comment-72518 Sean Gandert Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:52:57 +0000 http://www.neatorama.com/2007/01/30/the-naked-truth-authors-who-write-in-the-buff/#comment-72518 Also of note: Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. Also of note: Terry Jones of Monty Python fame.

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