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This Week Rida Bint Fozi and Amina Tajbhai asked BC students and faculty,if you had the opportunity to explore a writer's office/living space, whose would you pick and why?

Dean Koontz. His writing is so crazy and amazing, and I'd want to see the environment that he writes in, see what influences his thoughts. But honestly, I think I'd rather watch him work than see where he works.- St.Clair DeShong

I would go to the office/lab of Isaac Newton. In 1686, Newton published his Principia Mathematica, which was so revolutionary--it's like he copied God's copyright for the universe. His writings are still used today, three hundred years after his death. I love Newton because he was a visionary, taking Copernican ideas of heliocentrism, Kepler's explanation of elliptical orbits and Galileo's observations and using those to explain why heavenly bodies are set in motion the way they are. How insane was his genius, that he invented calculus to explain his other theories!- Mamunur Rahman

Truman Capote. I became interested in him after reading In Cold Blood, and I would want to see his notes on the Clutter family deaths and possibly learn more about the character of Perry Smith. I'd want to see if there were any transcripts of conversations between him and Smith, just to gain a better perspective on why he paints him as a character to be sympathized with.- Sarah Fozi

Erin Courtney. She's ridiculously creative. I'd love to see what her house/apartment looks like, just to see how that creativity translates into a certain lampshade or a color of paint or, perhaps, a choice of toothpaste.- Rida Bint Fozi

Frank O'Hara. Legend has it that he used to hide poems in kitchen drawers and people would find them in the couch cushions or in other places around the house. I would want to find the hidden poem.- Matthew Burgess

I would want to visit Philip Pullman's apartment in order to find out what shape his daemon is in the form of and to seek Dust in his living quarters. I remember reading his mystery novels when I was a kid, (i.e. The Ruby in the Stone) and being thrilled by his narrative, but never was my imagination stretched as far as it was when I embarked on the journey of reading The Golden Compass trilogy (i.e. Amber Spyglass; forgot the name of the third book). Just imagining a parallel universe and world existing along the present one is awesome. I wonder where such ideas come from and what strikes and influences Pullman's creativity. I mean, who would imagine a human living with mammoth-like creatures with wheels as feet and communicating with them? I guess then my intent in visiting Pullman's quarters would be to search out the root and the growth of his imagination .- Diana Kuruvilla

I would like to visit Paul Bowles' office or studio because he lived in Tangiers. (Bowles is the author of The Sheltering Sky, Let it Come Down, and many, many, many short stories.) Bowles expatriated from the US in the 1950s. He helped Burroughs come up with the cut up style there. And Ginsberg wrote there as well. It would be really cool to see how an American lived in Tangier at that time.- Daniel Cohen

I would visit the home of Langston Hughes because I have a slight obsession with almost anything from the 1920s and I just think he's pretty awesome. He's probably the best.- Dominique Gauvard
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