The author of several books, Kopelson (English, U. of Iowa) asks what desks represent for writers, how writers represent desks, for whom does the topography of ... » 

The author of several books, Kopelson (English, U. of Iowa) asks what desks represent for writers, how writers represent desks, for whom does the topography of the desk correspond to the topography of literary creation, and for whom it does not correspond. He samples 20th-century authors that he likes: a poet, a novelist, a critic, a playwright, an «