The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
- Posted on February 13, 2026
- By The New Yorker
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The Myth of the Perfect Writer’s Room
For aspiring writers, the rooms of literary figures—Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, Joan Didion—are talismanic sites. But the quest to find the ideal creative space is often self-defeating, Joshua Rothman writes.
