June 27th, 2011 / 11:56 am
 Behind the Scenes

Desktop Voyeurism: 21 Writers’ Computers

[Click on any screencap for a larger view.]

Rachel B. Glaser

 

Mathias Svalina

 

Michael Kimball

 

Vanessa Place
(left screen)
(right screen)

 

Evan Lavender-Smith

 

Tao Lin

 

Alissa Nutting

 

Jimmy Chen

 

James Boice

 

Kendra Grant Malone

 

Jon Cotner

 

Tony O’Neill

 

Adam Robinson

 

Kate Durbin

 

Zachary German

 

Stephen Graham-Jones

 

Lindsay Hunter (on her parents’ computer)

 

Shane Jones

 

Giancarlo DiTrapano

 

Kate Zambreno

 

Mike Topp

44 Comments

  1. June 27th, 2011 / 4:04 pm xxy—

      i was wondering how many had to be coached on how to take a desktop snapshot when i saw mr James Boice’s.

  2. June 27th, 2011 / 4:12 pm M. Kitchell—

      jimmy has the best desktop background

  3. June 27th, 2011 / 4:17 pm M. Kitchell—

      also: PCs for life

  4. June 27th, 2011 / 4:31 pm deadgod—

      do you mean the file icons behind the black surface with the holes in it

  5. June 27th, 2011 / 4:32 pm Dawn.—

      Amen. I don’t understand all the MACs. I’ve always been a PC girl.

  6. June 27th, 2011 / 4:34 pm M. Kitchell—

      no

  7. June 27th, 2011 / 4:50 pm Asdf—

      where is scott mcclanahan’s

  8. June 27th, 2011 / 4:56 pm Frank Tas, the Raptor—

      Props to Mr. Lin for putting the task bar on the side of the screen.

  9. June 27th, 2011 / 5:00 pm Trey—

      I am not being facetious when I say this is the kind of shit I am most interested in seeing on HTMLG. awesome.

  10. June 27th, 2011 / 5:10 pm Leapsloth14—

      This be sweet

  11. June 27th, 2011 / 5:14 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I am glad I am not the only person with way too much shit on my desktop.

  12. June 27th, 2011 / 5:18 pm Dawn.—

      I’m actually the opposite. I have literally no buttons on my desktop. Everything’s pinned to the taskbar or on the first page of my start menu. I always assumed more people had a lot of shit on their desktop and I was just anal.

  13. June 27th, 2011 / 5:19 pm lorian long—

      nicely done, gian

  14. June 27th, 2011 / 5:25 pm Anonymous—

      i’m pretty happy about the amount of boobs and genitals overall. kimball wins for most surprising, though.

  15. June 27th, 2011 / 5:53 pm deadgod—

      is power, this ‘no’

  16. June 27th, 2011 / 6:25 pm Matthew Simmons—

      Moose!

  17. June 27th, 2011 / 6:56 pm bobby—

      Whoah, I never would have guessed you were a die hard-PC guy. You seem much more human now. 

  18. June 27th, 2011 / 6:56 pm bobby—

      Whoah, I never would have guessed you were a die hard-PC guy. You seem much more human now. 

  19. June 27th, 2011 / 7:03 pm lily hoang—

      nice.

  20. June 27th, 2011 / 7:17 pm Anonymous—

      no sam pink as usual.

  21. June 27th, 2011 / 7:27 pm Tummler—

      German’s is appropriately minimalist.

  22. June 27th, 2011 / 7:29 pm Blake Butler—

      asked sam. no answer. i think he writes on the palms of his hands.

  23. June 27th, 2011 / 7:37 pm Anonymous—

      i think a non-existent background is a valid desktop background.

      but i feel you.  the comment was just an observation.

  24. June 27th, 2011 / 7:40 pm Anonymous—

      for the record, i like jimmy’s and gian’s.

      i definetely would think, “don’t try to fuck this guy/girl,” if I walked up on Kate Durbin’s desktop by chance.

  25. June 27th, 2011 / 8:54 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      I just noticed Kate Zambreno was watching PRETTY LITTLE LIARS. Nice.

  26. June 27th, 2011 / 9:31 pm Leapsloth14—

      I would love to know the ratio of people who sent you the desktop in under four minutes versus those that did not.

  27. June 27th, 2011 / 9:48 pm Penina—

      Maybe he was being ironic?

  28. June 27th, 2011 / 9:56 pm M. Kitchell—

      wait does edward mullany have a book coming out? that is awesome, his twitter rules.

  29. June 28th, 2011 / 1:16 am deadgod—

      I didn’t see it for a while either

      . . . or are you talking about the chances of anthony leading the team to a championship

  30. June 28th, 2011 / 1:37 am NLY—

      haha, know don’t laugh, it hurts

  31. June 28th, 2011 / 12:23 pm bartleby_taco—

      Dang! I was hoping Dennis Cooper would be there. People whose desktop I’d like to see: Dennis Cooper, Roberto Bolano, DFW, Cesar Aira, Wittgenstein, Kant, Theogenes, etc. I’d like to see Michele Houllebecq’s search history, if you catch my drift.

  32. June 28th, 2011 / 12:25 pm bartleby_taco—

      Also: just finished “Ugly Man” and at the back Dennis Cooper lists a bunch of his favorite shit, including his top 50 Bob Pollard songs as well as songs in general. Find myself often thinking about what kind of music people who write listen to. It was pretty cool to find out that DC likes GBV and Sebadoh and Spacemen 3 and SY etc etc.

  33. June 28th, 2011 / 12:33 pm bartleby_taco—

      Am suggesting that HTMLGiant should post authors’ top 5/10 fav albums/songs to make myself clear btw. Interesting tidbit: I actually remember M Kitchell from a livejournal music rating community from years ago before I started frequenting this website regularly.

  34. June 28th, 2011 / 2:30 pm xxy—

      ironic would be a snapshot of the top of a desk.

  35. June 28th, 2011 / 3:32 pm M. Kitchell—

      haha, was it sound_rationale?

  36. June 28th, 2011 / 3:32 pm M. Kitchell—

      haha, was it sound_rationale?

  37. June 28th, 2011 / 3:41 pm dole—

      now that I have an apple computer (since 01/2011) I have come to support PC users strongly, but I will not give up the apple, for now.

  38. June 28th, 2011 / 3:43 pm Ana Bozicevic—

      more desktop porn please.

  39. June 28th, 2011 / 4:02 pm Anonymous—
  40. June 28th, 2011 / 4:41 pm bartleby_taco—

      hehe yeap!

  41. June 28th, 2011 / 4:50 pm gavin—

      Seeing five things open on Stephen Graham Jones’ desktop confirmed my suspicion he writes five novels at a time.  But turns out he just surfs itunes and gmail like the rest of us.  Disappointing.  

  42. June 28th, 2011 / 5:07 pm Tim Jones-Yelvington—

      Mike Kitchell and the internet are actually the same person.

  43. June 28th, 2011 / 8:06 pm Tyler Gobble—

      this is a wonderful idea. makes me reconsider my desktop image, file organization, etc. 

  44. June 29th, 2011 / 11:44 am Russ—

      Dude really needs to plug his shit in, it’s gonna die soon.