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Sylvia Plath





Sylvia Plath liked to doodle in her diaries, creating illustrations of her life, her dreams, and in this case, her nightmare about being chased by a hot dog and a marshmallow.



[via Kool Things]



David Foster Wallace





David Foster Wallace draws on Cormac McCarthy’s face. We doubt those glasses and fangs are anything less than respectful.



[via HRC]



Vladimir Nabokov





Nabokov’s drawings and annotations on the first page of Kafka’s the Metamorphosis. He certainly had some thoughts about the language – or at least the translation.



[via Space in Text]





Also, Nabokov’s doodles of (what else?) butterflies on (what else?) a notecard.



[via LIFE]



Franz Kafka





And of course, Kafka’s own doodles, many of which have made their way into his books, particularly the man at the desk. Poor Franz.



Samuel Beckett





Beckett’s doodles from the “Watt” notebooks are as weird and wide as his writing.



[via HRC]



Allen Ginsberg









When recipients were willing, Ginsberg would often inscribe books with a little something extra. We’re not sure what to make of all the “AH”s – anyone know? Our best guess: the seed syllable ‘ah’ in ‘Om Ah Hum’.



[via Poet's Path]



Mark Twain





Okay, so these are more than idle doodles – they’re instructions to Twain’s printer regarding the weather indicators he drew at the start of each chapter, “to save the space usually devoted to explanations of the state of the weather in books of this kind.” Always thinking, that Mark Twain.



[via Twainia]



Henry Miller







From Miller’s insomniac period. Definitely the creations of an over-excited mind.



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Kurt Vonnegut





Vonnegut’s doodles are well known, as they have been incorporated into many editions of his work and are even serving as elements of the covers in recent printings. However, that doesn’t make them any less great. You know what that asterisk is.



Charles Bukowski





This doodle is attached to a letter he wrote to the Sycamore Review, published in issue 3.2. We have no idea what it is supposed to be. A “good doggie”? A guy with a big nose and a bottle of whiskey? We don’t know.



[via Sycamore Review]



Jorge Luis Borges





[via NDU]





Borges’ self-portrait, drawn after he had gone blind.

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