Monday, July 25, 2022

10 (11) Writers Who Probably Would/Wouldn’t Sign My High School Yearbook

 


 Photo credit: The Little Hawk, Iowa City High School, Iowa City


11 Writers Who Would Probably Refuse to Sign My High School Yearbook

Salman Rushdie

Martin Amis

Graham Greene

Robert Lowell

T.S. Eliot

Jonathan Franzen

Cormac McCarthy

Thomas Pynchon

Jean-Paul Sartre

Samuel Beckett

Alice, of Go Ask Alice

 

11 Writers Who Would Probably Sign My High School Yearbook with X’s and O’s & Entreaties to “Stay Sweet”

e.e. cummings

Elizabeth Strout

Judy Blume

Jacqueline Susann

George Saunders

Stephen King

Anne Lamott

Walt Whitman

James Baldwin

S.E. Hinton (ok: “stay gold,” not “stay sweet”)

David Sedaris (ok: ironically, but I wouldn’t know that back then)

 

1 Writer Who Would Sign My High School Yearbook with Footnotes that Take Up a Whole Page

David Foster Wallace