Carolyn’s Team Pick:
Peeking into writers’ offices feels like getting a look in their brains. Peeking into writers’ bedrooms feels like getting a look in their souls.
Apartment Therapy has a look at the insides of 15 writers’ bedrooms, including Virginia Woolf, Flannery O’Connor, Sylvia Plath, Mary Roach, Emily Dickinson, and Henry David Thoreau. If, like I do, you spend a great deal of your procrastination time on the internet looking at the insides of other people’s apartments to avoid looking at the inside of your own, you will really like this gallery. Look, here’s Hemingway:
Hemingway's Bedroom, via Apartment Therapy
Let’s talk about this! Sylvia Plath’s looks exactly how you expected it to, agree/disagree.
Can I just have Victor Hugo’s room and never, ever have to leave it?
This post has left me with immense room-envy.
this is really neat! glad that my writing nest comprised of bedding and questionably clean laundry didn’t make the cut
Re: Sylvia – agree.
I could quite happily live in Virginia Woolf’s room.
That was exactly what I was going to say.
i feel like thoreau’s is the only one i’d actually want to write in
This makes me want to clean my house. Maybe I’ll write better?
Syvia Plath’s and William Faulkner’s rooms look like they belong in a B horror movie. Or “Paranormal Activity.” So much explained….
I wish my room looked like Virginia Woolf’s, but its sadly more of a Alexander Master’s.
I feel like we are all on a Slyvia Plath consensus. Agree.
I had those exact same thoughts.
I want Proust’s armchair.
I just had a bedroomgasm with Virginia Woolf(‘s one).
Faulker is plain creepy.
Sadly, my room most closely resembles Faulkner’s. The writing on the wall is what did it.
Is April going to be writer’s month? Because I’m loving all the bookage today.
I’m an Alexander Masters with Virginia Woolf aspirations. Hoping to at least land at Faulkner? I think I could handle that.
Thank you for showing me something to share with my 11th graders tomorrow.
I feel better about the mess in my room after seeing Alexander Masters’ room…
oh, emily dickinson
I just have to say, I stood in Virginia Woolf’s room, and it’s every bit as awesome as it looks in the picture.
I want Truman Capote’s room.
Me too! Sometimes I wish I was a gay man, but then I remember that I like being a strong woman, and I never want to have sex with a man.
I like Thoreau’s, Faulkner’s, and Plath’s room’s best.
I’m not sure what exactly that says about me now…
Flannery O’Connor’s room is the most amazing decor. I am impressed that she, well probably her mother, found so much of that fabric. A good decorator is hard to find.
Thoreau’s room is the one I saw and thought, ‘yep, that’s exactly it’.
…Is it strange that I really like the writing on Faulkner’s wall?
The ultimate writing room would be Virginia Woolf’s, but with Miranda Seymour’s bed – that duvet is lookin’ plush! I tend to be a bed snob.
What a great post–and I love Apartment Therapy with a weird passion !
My passing thoughts:
CAPOTE–dude, love the red touches and the summer camp aesthetic but srsly, you’re going to have trouble getting laid consistently in that twin bed.
WOOLF–triple love herringbone wood floors, feels so good under bare feet when they are warmed by sun and polished smooth with wear.
MASTERS–if you’re gonna have an alligator skin on your wall, it’s gotta be bigger than a bass. Sometimes size DOES matter…jusayin.
HUGO–like a Barbary Coast Bordello or, guaranteed to prompt vomiting upon waking with a hang-over. Ouch.
SEYMOUR–I feel like I could date a girl who lived in this room and happily wake up there with her on a Sunday morning.
Anyone who likes this should definitely check out a feature the Guardian used to do – Writers’ rooms. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/writersrooms
Pictures of where various writers work, some of the photos in the linked post are from here. I’m sad they stopped doing it.
I like Master’s and Burroughs best. Sylvia Plath’s is nothing what I thought it would look like, but I’m a pretty big fan of her writing and life, so I’m not surprised I was disappointed.
Another great one not here is Norman Mailer’s: http://flavorwire.com/229691/inside-the-bedrooms-of-15-cultural-icons#9
Sylvia’s room is exactly how I would have imagined!
As a side note, I’m fairly new to Autostraddle but I keep on finding blogs and sites I’m subscribed to on here, in random posts… I think Autostraddle and I were meant to be! <3
Anyone else feel like this?