{"id":6647,"date":"2014-02-17T22:04:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T03:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=6647"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:48:10","slug":"new-york-times-perverse-perspective-writers-rooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/17\/new-york-times-perverse-perspective-writers-rooms\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times’ Perverse Perspective on Writers’ Rooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The New York Times has an unintentionally hilarious series of photos of “The Writer’s Room<\/a>” – the personal spaces where five authors write their books.<\/p>\n

Joyce Carol Oates (pictured at left) sez: “Like all writers, I have made my writing room a sanctuary of the soul.”<\/p>\n

Geez. None of these folks seem to appreciate “creative chaos” – or – as some have termed my office – FEMA-eligible disaster sites.<\/p>\n

I don’t trust offices that look like they are waiting for a drill sergeant’s inspection. Also, I notice a distinct lack of ammo boxes, beer bottles, and ashtrays in these writers’ offices.<\/p>\n

Shizam –\u00a0\u00a0 were the offices the NYT\u00a0chose to portray\u00a0selected by the YMCA or the Partnership for a Drug Free America, or what?<\/p>\n

Below is a 1990 photo (I think) when I was hacking out The Fair Trade Fraud<\/a>.\u00a0 The wider angle shot taken at the same time looks distinctly more…..um…. anarchic.<\/p>\n

\"1990-office-improved-probably-FIXED-11-30-2012-IMG_0031\"<\/a><\/p>\n

(Hat tip to the patient photographer, my ex- Susanne.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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