Broadcast

Liz Danzico recently posted a link to George Bernard Shaw’s writing hut and I was drawn once again to the marvelous, yet infrequent, series of Writers’ Rooms from The Guardian. Shaw’s hut, a retreat from callers to the house — “People bother me,” Shaw confessed. “I came here to hide from them.” — is charming in its plainness. The wicker chair, bare whitewashed wood and the evenly spaced writer’s ephemera.

Compare this then to the litter of post-it notes that swarm around Will Self’s writing room with it’s teetering paper stacks, heaving shelves, and intricately annotated maps.