Posts tagged Maurice Sendak
If you’re as wild about Wilde as we are, you might want to check out Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde.
Late one NYC night, West Village bartender Burt Britton found himself alone at last call with Norman Mailer. Wanting to close up, Britton attempted to usher his sole client out of the bar. “What do you want, kid?” the writer grumbled. So Britton asked him to draw a self-portrait.
Mailer drew him one, then finished his drink in peace, and left.
Since then, Britton has collected over 200 celebrity self-portraits, including ones from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali, Woody Allen, Margaret Atwood, Jorge Luis Borges, Roald Dahl, Joan Didion, Allen Ginsberg, Stephen King, Cormac McCarthy, Paul Newman, Maurice Sendak, John Updike, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Wolfe, and this, by Gloria Steinem.
For a full catalog of the self-portraits, see here.
(via openroadmedia)
