On the opposite side of the spectrum are places that operate more like writer communes.
When I was a young White House speech writer, we communed with one another and otherwise read and wrote quietly in our offices.
Even smaller numbers will suffice for the literary writer: thousands, hundreds, dozens, perhaps even just one other with whom the author can commune.
Tamasin Day-Lewis wrote that Lemmons was always full of "impossibly glamorous older people and a core commune of writers, painters and inventors; even the dogs and cats shared a communal basket, and there were always stray writers and publishers whose marriages were unravelling".
[In English] "...to create a rallying point for writers and artists to commune and progress their craft(s).
Writer tells about the commune in detail: its members, its work & how it operated including the therapy practiced on the disciples.
"Tres" closes with "A Stroll Through Literature," a phantasmagoria in which Mr. Bolaño communes with writers like Georges Perec and Philip K. Dick, Mark Twain and Carson McCullers, Kafka and Stendhal.
This dance theater troupe sounds like an artists' commune, including choreographers, writers, actors, musicians, directors and teachers.
To shake her hand or look her in the eye was our last chance to commune physically with the writer who personified the Jazz Age and the Paris of the nineteen-twenties.
When Bob is not tending bar, he is home in Park Slope, Brooklyn, communing with books by writers like Céline and Camus, a couple of his favorites, or looking after his daughter when she is in town.
