My Desk
Here it is, your exclusive look inside the office of The American Conservative - or at least a part of my desk during lunch. What's interesting here? Well There is the fact that I don't keep my books separated into any categories. There is some David Foster Wallace right near a huge biography of Jefferson Davis. Apparently I can't even keep my volumes of the Encyclopedia of Tariffs and Trade in U.S. History in their proper order and they oddly sit next to a collection of Truman Capote's fiction.
In the foreground there is my daily calendar which features pinup drawings from the late 50s and early 60s and a short story collection I'm working through - "Cheating at Canasta" by William Trevor - an amazing collection of well crafted stories by a sure-handed Irish author. Also, you can see my instruction manual for the camera itself. I might get flack for the Huckabee bumper sticker. All I can say is that as a reporter you tend to collect this stuff. On another part of my desk I have both the American and Isreali flags I took from a conference of Christian Zionists.
Looking over the picture it seems that the oddest concentration of books happens on the lefthand side. I have those encyclopedias next to a collection of Antonio Gramci's work, then Dave Egger's "How We Are Hungry" and then Hilaire Belloc's "The Servile State" and a biography of Mikhail Bakunin (which I loved).
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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This reminds me of an art project I did in college wherein I had friends write detailed lists of all of the things they had in their backpacks. It's interesting what we carry/interact with/sit next to all day, every day and don't really think about...