How I write : the secret lives of authors / Edited by Dan Crowe with Philip Oltermann

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 -- The dogs / Arthur Bradford -- Tempus omnia revelat / Bruce Robinson -- Earplugs / Nicholson Baker -- The importance of my navel / Tim Carvell -- A purple pen, a portable home / Elif Shafak -- The head of a saint / Audrey Niffenegger -- Red and blue notebook / Peter Hobbs -- Seahorses / Jill Dawson -- Quark / Chip Kidd -- "Office" / Caren Beilin -- Typewriter / John Byrne -- Barricade / Nat Segnit -- Rock bottom / Dan Rhodes -- Hotel rooms / A.M. Homes -- Tobacco / DBC Pierre