Here’s a fun little artwork about famous writers, showing silhouettes of people uttering captions  that contain names like Italo Calvino, Marguerite Duras, E.M. Forster, Paul Auster, Günter Grass, Silvia Plath, J.K. Rowling, Virginia Woolf, and others.

This is what I put on the back side of a greeting card of mine that I have recently put up for sale on my web site – it’s a fun little story consisting largely of famous authors’ names (Michèle and Shelley, I was thinking of you while composing this). Are you making sense of all the names?

One JOYCE SOMERSET MOORE, a HAMSUN SCOTTish WHIT-MANN RIMBAUD LONGFELLOW from AUSTEN, TX, named JAMES-HUGO CONRAD-ELIOT CUMMINGS, for whom the BÖLL STOWEd, left HOMER in a RUSHDIE with his KLOPSTOCK and ZOLA;

and STERNEly UPDIKEd the GREENE GRASS to the SAND-STEINy, HAWTHORNEy GINSBERG MONTAIGNE with his BALZAC THOREAUldered;

while SINGERing a ROWLING NOVALIS VERNEacular CAROLL, despite the FRISCH TWAIN and FROSTy DEFOE STORM;

having a GOLDING SCHNITZLER-BACON HEGEL and CALVINO along the VOGELWEIDE ESCHENBACH;

and POEking a MARLOWE-MAUPASSANT which came in HANDKE HEMINGWAY;

SWIFTly PUSHKIN through the WILDE FORSTER BLOCH OVID to MANSFIELD, ISHERWOOD, FIELDING, and ATWOOD; HARDY PASSOSing the HUGHES GOETHE PLATH overLOCKEing the HOFMANNSTHAL, and the BARRIEd WOOLF SANDBURG by the CHESTERTON SOCRATES;

till after many DAHL MILNEs which he thought he KANT BLAKE with his GRIMM foot BLIXEN MARX, he SHAW the MELVILLE DONNEtown WODEHOUSE McCOURT (near SHAKESPEARE 39), where he POPPERed off his MAILER;

and AESOP he YEATS a DOSTOYEVSKY quarter POUNDer al DANTE with a RILKE salad LESSING and a PINTER of LAGERLÖF LEAR in a BYRON BECKETT for a BUCK.

This is the card BTW:

MOTIF: WORDSWORTH City

• Regular Coated A6 Postcard (2 Pages)
• Plain Fun Series:
  This one is for us book lovers – a huge metropolis skyline which consists entirely of books of all sizes. This is the city I want to live in! The back side features a fun little story in very light gray color which is easy to overwrite (click on image for more information).
• Card size is 105 x 148mm (4.1 x 5.8 in.)
• Heavy paper (280 g/m2)
• Front side is coated with a stylish matte varnish.
• Back side is uncoated and can be used for personal notes.