The Chronicle of Higher Education

Desks, and How Writers Treat Them

Writers form an accord with their work space that suits them: Some choose obsessive tidiness, others overwhelming clutter, says Mr. Kopelson in Neatness Counts: Essays on the Writer’s Desk (University ...
BBC

Historic writer's desk could be 'knackered' old fake

Museum visitors will be asked whether they believe the piece of furniture really was Dr Johnson's desk The desk of the writer Dr Samuel Johnson is to be returned to his former London home for the ...
Architectural Digest

Lucas Mann Describes the Emotional Stages of Realizing You're a Writer Who Can't Write at a Desk

I’m trying to remember the first time I registered the image of a writer’s desk. It must have been in a movie—Little Women, maybe?—when a character was marked as identifiably different from the others ...
The New York Times

Will a Famous Critic’s Desk Cure My Writer’s Block?

Seeking inspiration from Vincent Canby’s Gothic trestle table. By Julie Besonen Because of the pandemic, I have Vincent Canby’s desk. Millions of witty words must have drummed from his fingertips ...
The New Criterion

The small, battered desk (The writer’s role: responses to Hortense Calisher’s “The Long, Shining Table”)

Editor’s note: “The long, shining table: writers in Eastern Europe” by Hortense Calisher appeared in the January issue of The New Criterion. What follows is one of four observations on some of the ...