7 April, 2010
"What's to see?"
That's the question Calvin Trillin asked in a New Yorker article a number of years ago, about author's homes as tourist attractions. "The labor that makes a world-famous novelist worth writing about was almost certainly done while he was sitting all by himself in a small room. The raw material was probably invisible to everyone but him."
Trillin goes on to note that "a visitor to Herman Melville's study couldn't expect to find any whales."
