Writer’s Desk: Go for a Walk

[image error]Taking a restorative walk is always good for the mind, the heart, and the soul. Even when the weather is awful (heat, snow, what have you), a walk almost always clears the mind and puts you in better shape to do whatever lays ahead.

In Kathleen Rooney’s Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, a great new novel about a New York flaneuse and wordsmith, Boxfish is a great proponent of going for lunchtime walks through crowded midtown Manhattan in order to juice her writing:

For me, a peaceful atmosphere d...