More Fun with the LIFE Magazine Photo Archive

[mrdankelly]

Type in writer and you pull up a slew of photos of famous (and not-so-famous) writers doing stereotypically writerly things, like smoking or looking intense while pretending to type. Sorry, no photos of Faulkner lying in his own puke or Hemingway with a shotgun to his head. The occasional typewriters are pretty cool though. Is that a Clark Nova or

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[ammitbeast]

I was just about to settle down and write for a while... now I realize that I've been doing it wrong. Damn it.

I have the hats, and I can affect an intense look now and again... maybe it counts as smoking since you've successfully made me think about smoking...