from Delancey Place . . . Writers
Nin Andrews (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
In today's excerpt - famous writers and their odd ways of writing: "Dame Edith Sitwell used to lie in an open coffin for a while before she began her day's writing. When I mentioned this macabre bit of gossip to a poet friend, he said acidly, 'If only someone had thought to shut it.' ... "Sitwell's coffin trick may sound like a prank, unless you look at how other writers have gone about courting...