The View

FROM HEMINGWAYS ATTIC

 

Writers can be particular about the tools of their trade and the places where they write. John Cheever wrote each of his books in a different room of his house. Natalie Goldberg writes with a particular brand of ballpoint in spiral Mickey Mouse notebooks in offbeat coffee shops. John Irving turns his back on the hum and ease of technology, choosing the clang and chime of an old manual. William Hazelgrove, author of last years critically acclaimed, Mica Highways and Tobacco Sticks has stumbled on the most unique spot of all to write novels, Ernest Hemingways attic in Oak Park. Hazelgrove sets his laptop on a steamer trunk that belonged to Hemingway's sister Marcelline, twenty feet above where the Ernest was born, and gazes across the rooftops that must have caught the imagination of the great writer as a young boy and gives us the "view" from Hemingways attic in a series of essays on writing, the arts, and culture.

 

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The View Archives The Last Refuge The Safe Old World Beginning Again For The Three Thousand The Great Northern Silence To my big brother George... A Beautiful Thing The Repackaging of Culture For My Fallen Countrymen The Ha Ha Club Print On Demand The Fiction of Our Times The Politics of Obscurity The Ping Pong of Politics Those Christmas Letters Harvest Nights The Age of Corporate Heroes Rooftops and Dust The Great Quiet of Hemingway's Attic The Snows of Disbelief A Writer Answers the Call of Fame Writer In Winter In Our Time Alama Mater Days The Age We Live In God's Favor The Rich are very differnt from You and I