Yesterday’s poll about hottie writers is moving along at a pretty good clip, but it should be noted that “You’ve left out my favorite author. You suck.” is currently the third most popular choice. And some of you haven’t been shy about telling me just who you thought should have been included. The poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil was brought to our attention, as was historical suspense writer Tasha Alexander—actually, that’s not strictly true; I’m in the middle of Tasha’s latest, A Poisoned Season, right now, but have to recuse myself on the subject of her hottiness because she went out with my roommate junior year.
Then Karen Abbott‘s photographer sent us the portrait being used to promote Sin in the Second City, a history of Chicago’s most famous brothel, and someone pointed out that we’d just been to a party a while back for Brenda Janowitz. And those are just the omissions people have written in about…