TY - BOOK AU - Crowe,Dan AU - Oltermann,Philip TI - How I write: the secret lives of authors SN - 0847829421 PY - 2007/// CY - New York PB - Rizzoli KW - Authors KW - Authorship KW - Anecdotes KW - Creative writing N1 - A farewell to arms; Vendela Vida --; A squeaky office chair; Jonathan Franzen --; Post-it notes; Will Self --; The Baths of Diocletian; Alan Hollinghurst --; Stövchen; Benjamin Markovits --; Jarry's spiral; Tom Robbins --; A Maglite; Janine Di Giovanni --; A cork wall; Eric Chase Anderson --; Kiehl's; JT Le Roy --; A large desk; Alain de Botton --; Ganesha; Luis J. Rodriguez --; A picture from Prague; Gina Ochsner --; Chocolate; Douglas Coupland --; A blindfolded rhino; Melissa Bank --; Simon Wiesenthal and the Simpsons; David Baddiel --; Clippity; Lionel Shriver --; Through my window; Geoff Dyer --; Nicotine; Anthony Bourdain --; Unknown keys; Siri Hustvedt --; Notebooks thrown across rooms; A.L. Kennedy --; Portland Meadows Racetrack; Willy Vlautin --; Calace; Louisa Young --; People I don't know; Isabel Young --; Yerba Maté; James Flint --; Oblique strategies; Rick Moody --; Hot water; Jane Smiley --; Oxford Bar; Ian Rankin --; A cabinet of curiosities; A.S. Byatt --; Laurence Stern; Adam Thirlwell --; Speedball; Natasha Mostert --; The pens; Hanif Kureishi --; Names; Jonathan Lethem --; Driving; David Guterson --; Alphabets; Marie Darrieussecq --; A body plummeting; Nicole Krauss --; In the wee small hours; Neil LaBute --; The monkey's jaw; Iain Sinclair --; The rituals of tea; Tash Aw --; A cypress cone; William Fiennes --; The lights of my writing life; Tony D'Souza --; .005; Claire Messud --; My grandmother the dancer; Jake Arnott --; Walking; Matt Thorne --; Krautrock; Michel Faber --; Portrait; Joyce Carol Oates --; An axe in my hand; Jay McInerney --; Money; Tibor Fischer --; Cocktails from water and ice; Nick Laird --; Nat Love; ZZ Packer --; "This childish task"; Javier Marías --; Akhenaten; Ahdaf Soueif --; Terry's fist; Ronan Bennett ER -