title: How I Write: The Secret Lives of Authors
author: Dan Crowe
description: Crowe, founding editor of <i>Zembla </i>magazine, and Oltermann asked 67 authors to tell them about meaningful objects in their work spaces. The answers, revealed in this playful and snappily designed book of text and photographs revolve around the things writers use for inspiration or to ward off their demonsinsufficient inspiration, procrastination and writer's block. Lucky charms abound. Luis J. Rodriguez keeps a statuette of the Hindu lord of success on his desk; Siri Hustvedt has a set of abandoned keys to symbolically unlock the doors to her stories. Writing implements are important: Hanif Kureishi's pens; John Byrne's old Olympia portable typewriter; Peter Hobbs's generic red and blue notebooks. Furniture matters, too, including Alain de Botton's huge desk and Jonathan Franzen's squeaky office chair. Some writers depend on food or drinkchocolate for Douglas Coupland, tea for Tash Aw and Benjamin Markovits. And there are Arthur Bradford's dogs, Nicholson Baker's earplugs and Jay McInerney's 500,000-year-old hand ax. Each writer's short explanation of his or her relationship to a particular talisman is accompanied by a full-page color photograph of the device, making this handsome coffee-table book an intriguing object in its own right. <i>(May)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: D I L F
  
  S A M  C R E S C E N T
  J E N I K A  S N O W
  
  DILF
  By Sam Crescent and Jenika Snow
  www.SamCrescent.com
  sam_crescent1467@yahoo.co.uk
  www.JenikaSnow.com
  Jenika_Snow@yahoo.com
  Copyright © May 2018 by Sam Crescent and Jenika Snow
  First E-book Publication: May 2018
  Editor: Kasi Alexander
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