Showing posts with label Dostoevsky. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dostoevsky. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Author Look-alikes Vol. 14


Henry Miller and Jean Luc Picard. “Engage:”


Who can match Evelyn Waugh’s aristocratic airs? Lord Grantham, that’s who:


Swap the pince nez for regular specs and Anton Checkov isn’t that different from a goateed Robert Downey Jr:


Fyodor Doestoevsky wasn’t exactly handsome. In kind of the same way that Ron Howard’s brother isn’t handsome:


I wasn't sure this was really William Butler Yeats, and not a Steve Martin bit character. I'm still not completely convinced:



Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Russian Rumble



We haven’t forgotten about you, Literary Death Match fans. We’ve simply had to postpone our next match a couple of weeks while ringside reporter Kelly Wallace continues to recover from injuries sustained in the last title bout. 

But while you wait for the highly-anticipated Bronte sister beat-down, we thought we’d point you to another head-to-head match up playing out over at the Millions. They asked the experts who’s greater, Tolstoy or Dostoevsky. It's definitely worth a read.