Writers' rooms.
I would feel very much at home in Claire Tomalin's study.
A bang, not a whimper
Two months into L.'s retirement, and I'm finished with the stockpiling of books. No more book purchases! Or at least, no purcha...
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(See also Musee des Beaux Arts ) As far as mental anguish goes, the old painters were no fools. They understood how the mind, the freakiest ...
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When I finished Kevin Brockmeier's A Brief History of the Dead last spring I immediately did a search to see if the Coca-Cola Corp. had...
Just wanted to remind you that the 24 Hour Readathon is this Saturday
ReplyDeleteClaire Tomalin's is a bit too messy for me. I liked Kate Mosse's.
ReplyDeleteClaire Tomalin can do no wrong -- she wrote that really good biography of Katherine Mansfield.
ReplyDeleteI wonder who dusts for these folks. So many collections of little things.
ReplyDeleteMarys Library looks a tad like Russell Hoban's nest, I'm afraid.
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Hilary Mantel's space seems like one in which I could make myself comfy... we seem to share a need for clear desks.
ReplyDeleteMy desk is clear at the moment, but that's because I spilled a glass of lemonade all over everything on Sunday evening and all the papers and books are now in the hall and in the bathrooms.
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