“A second position that’s good is reclining.” Numerous writers and thinkers worked in bed, including René Descartes, Marcel Proust, and Edith Warton. Frida Kahlo began painting seriously while bedridden from a bus accident. Truman Capote proclaimed himself to be “a completely horizontal author,” and Michael Chabon writes laid back in an Eames chair – his laptop resting on the kind of overbed table you might see in a hospital.
