On finishing a book

I speak for myself, but by the time I have finished a writing project my desk has gotten so cluttered it embarrasses me. The first thing I do after I print out the manuscript or send off the electronic versions to the editors and publisher is to clean off the stacks of books. Here is my desk in the final phase of writing. By the end of May it will be even worse. The speculative sorts will begin to read titles and guess what I’ll be arguing.