THE WORKING DESK
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THE WORKING DESK Book 1
4 parts · 14 h 7 min
Tokyo, 1968 to 2015. A student with no plan borrows money, opens a jazz bar in a western suburb, and spends seven years washing glasses, paying interest and closing at two in the morning.
THE WORKING DESK Book 2
4 parts · 12 h 19 min
Maine, 1947 to 2000. Stephen King grows up poor in a rented house in Durham, sells his first story at nineteen for thirty-five dollars, and spends four years after college teaching high-school English for a salary that will not cover the telephone bill.
THE WORKING DESK Book 3
4 parts · 13 h 19 min
New York and the Texas Hill Country, 1935 to 2023. Robert Caro learned on a Long Island newspaper that the way to find out what happened is to turn every page of the file, and then spent sixty years proving how expensive that is.
THE WORKING DESK Book 4
4 parts · 14 h 11 min
Hartford and New York, 1865 to 1900. Samuel Clemens sold books the way a sewing machine was sold — door to door, by canvassers working assigned territory from a sample book, months before a copy existed. He made a fortune at it, decided the publishers who paid him were cheating him, and set up in the trade himself.
THE WORKING DESK Book 5
4 parts · 13 h 49 min
Kansas City, Toronto, Paris and Key West, 1899 to 1961. Ernest Hemingway learns to write on a newspaper copy desk at eighteen, under a house style sheet whose first rule is to use short sentences.
THE WORKING DESK Book 6
4 parts · 14 h 23 min
America, 1904 to 2023.