Ask yourself the following question: Would you trust a guy going out of his way to look like Erich von Stroheim on the Nobel Literature committee?

PICTURED LEFT: Henry James, author of The American Scene
PICTURED RIGHT: Winston Churchill, author of A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

PICTURED LEFT: Doris Lessing, author of The Golden Notebook
PICTURED RIGHT: Unidentified woman in Dorothea Lange’s “Migrant Mother.”

PICTURED LEFT: Neal Pollack, former satirist and one-time front man of band.
PICTURED RIGHT: Jack Black, former satirist and one-time front man of band.