{"id":230427,"date":"2025-05-08T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/tnbbcs-the-next-best-book-blog-where-writers-write-tom-mcallister\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:04:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:04:44","slug":"tnbbcs-the-next-best-book-blog-where-writers-write-tom-mcallister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=230427","title":{"rendered":"TNBBC&#8217;s The Next Best Book Blog: Where Writers Write: Tom McAllister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-3613969788193698943\" itemprop=\"description articleBody\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0<span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: center;\">Welcome to another installment of TNBBC&#8217;s Where Writers Write!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: #fefdfa; color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"><br style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"\/><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"\/><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"\/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"\/><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\"\/><span style=\"line-height: 18.2px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><b>Where Writers Write<\/b>\u00a0is a series that features authors as they showcase their writing spaces using short form essay, photos, and\/or video. As a lover of books and all of the hard work that goes into creating them, I thought it would be fun to see where the authors roll up their sleeves and make the magic happen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhZRxYDKuCNTRt-2oRvlwDjHc5lMBo9VVkVhuzzYj2Pc0aJI1hbnCUKGINS9FZOqcRLOgeeESdSTXTb2o1ekO9IC9Bir4uMZjPRh0sSgwE6fPEmrm_WSwAKtB_CxXT-8gbHakXw3bV8Ov2GadIX6NLcnq1OU6iCZXN-S9wIiQyGBKQWYXnPncucmK_vu3aJ\/s2457\/Tom%20McAllister%20Headshot%20Credit%20Matt%20Godfrey.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1913\" data-original-width=\"2457\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhZRxYDKuCNTRt-2oRvlwDjHc5lMBo9VVkVhuzzYj2Pc0aJI1hbnCUKGINS9FZOqcRLOgeeESdSTXTb2o1ekO9IC9Bir4uMZjPRh0sSgwE6fPEmrm_WSwAKtB_CxXT-8gbHakXw3bV8Ov2GadIX6NLcnq1OU6iCZXN-S9wIiQyGBKQWYXnPncucmK_vu3aJ\/w200-h156\/Tom%20McAllister%20Headshot%20Credit%20Matt%20Godfrey.jpg\" width=\"200\"\/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/>This is\u00a0Tom McAllister.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">A\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">2006 graduate of<br \/>\nthe Iowa Writers Workshop, Tom McAllister is the co-creator of the<br \/>\npopular\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Book Fight!<\/i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0podcast where writers talk honestly about<br \/>\nbooks, writing, and the literary world. He\u2019s also the author of the critically<br \/>\nacclaimed novels\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\">How to Be Safe<\/i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u2014which Ron Charles praised in\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The<br \/>\nWashington Post<\/i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0as \u201clike nothing else I\u2019ve read\u201d\u2014and\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The Young<br \/>\nWidower\u2019s Handbook<\/i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u2014which\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Kirkus<\/i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0called \u201ca quirky,<br \/>\nwell-told fiction debut\u201d\u2014as well as the memoir\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Bury Me in My Jersey<\/i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u2014which\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Publishers<br \/>\nWeekly<\/i><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">\u00a0declared \u201ca feverish coming-of-age tale of a gridiron groupie<br \/>\nknown as a Philly fanatic.\u201d McAllister\u2019s latest work is just as surprising,<br \/>\nlively, skillful, and human.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><b><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">Where\u00a0<span style=\"text-align: left;\">Tom McAllister Writes<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhpNakX2mimV4_c-DJHDtMh5Q_GeInG30O_zXVV1wgFeS3EAvXPA62daR9RDtsMEyVtf5zEclHlLE7zjRKUKuAVpDDNKzUGjMmofcq9Muc9qhvgL3HsJ02y7IIJHybGx5zjfR79MhsL4ObneG0Hl-vNGzOh2RpmCRA1aXThxNHxuKsUs9vofS8Pie0LWUN0\/s1430\/tom%20Picture1.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1073\" data-original-width=\"1430\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEhpNakX2mimV4_c-DJHDtMh5Q_GeInG30O_zXVV1wgFeS3EAvXPA62daR9RDtsMEyVtf5zEclHlLE7zjRKUKuAVpDDNKzUGjMmofcq9Muc9qhvgL3HsJ02y7IIJHybGx5zjfR79MhsL4ObneG0Hl-vNGzOh2RpmCRA1aXThxNHxuKsUs9vofS8Pie0LWUN0\/w400-h300\/tom%20Picture1.jpg\" width=\"400\"\/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><span style=\"text-align: left;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">My wife<br \/>\nand I moved to a smaller home in June 2020, a time of great uncertainty for<br \/>\nobvious reasons, and although this was not close to the biggest challenge in my<br \/>\nlife, I was forced to replace my desk. My previous desk was a hulking,<br \/>\nutilitarian throwback, the kind of desk my father would have had at the office<br \/>\njobs he held late in his life, with big bulky file drawers and a flat,<br \/>\nunassuming finish. It weighed, conservatively, 7000 pounds. On moving day, it<br \/>\ntook three professionals to maneuver it out of the old house, into the truck<br \/>\nand then into our attached garage, because there was no chance it could fit<br \/>\ninto my new office. The new house is smaller because we wanted a smaller house,<br \/>\nwanted to simplify our lives at least a little bit. In the old place, my home<br \/>\noffice was a large bedroom, once used by a child who had a wallpaper border<br \/>\nwith teddy bear print wrapping around the room (the previous owners had tried<br \/>\nto scrape it off, but gave up on the corners, and in the eight years we lived<br \/>\nthere, we never tried to remove it; my guess is it\u2019s still there). In the new<br \/>\nhouse, a Cape Cod with finished attic, my office is a small, trapezoidal space<br \/>\ncarved out into the east-facing side of the house. Perfectly functional, if not<br \/>\nglamorous. The desk couldn\u2019t even fit up the stairs, let alone into the room. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d gotten the desk for free, from a<br \/>\nlocal business called Office Furniture Outlet, when my wife and I appeared on a<br \/>\nshort-lived home renovation show called <i>Moving Up<\/i>. On <i>Moving Up<\/i>,<i><br \/>\n<\/i>you follow a chain of three families: Family A sells to Family B, who sells<br \/>\nto Family C. We were Family C, the young couple just starting out. We agreed to<br \/>\nbe on the show because I erroneously thought it would be fun, and because we<br \/>\nwould get a number of household items free or at steep discounts: 20 gallons of<br \/>\npaint, two portable air conditioners, a few area rugs, office furniture. I<br \/>\nforget what else. I liked that old desk because it was free, and flat, and it<br \/>\nheld my things, but I had no particular attachment to it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><span style=\"mso-tab-count: 1;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>After the move, I decided to splurge<br \/>\non a mid-century modern desk from a popular retailer. I told myself, \u201cYou<br \/>\ndeserve this,\u201d whatever that means (if it\u2019s even true). Because of covid, there<br \/>\nwas a long delay in my receiving the desk, and in the interim, I placed my<br \/>\ncomputer on top of a rectangular folding table that rattled every time I<br \/>\npressed a key. Beneath me, in the garage, was the old desk that I was trying to<br \/>\nsell for cheap on Facebook Marketplace. This new desk looks nicer, I think, and<br \/>\nit is also flat and it holds my things. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">My<br \/>\nwife would tell you that it holds too many things, that my propensity for piles<br \/>\nstresses her out, but she tolerates my piles so long as they are mostly<br \/>\ncontained within this room. The piles mostly have functions. The two hardcover<br \/>\nbooks to the right are Asne Seierstad books (both excellent) that serve as an<br \/>\nideal pedestal for my computer when I am in a Zoom meeting or recording a<br \/>\npodcast. Behind that, I keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/oxford-american-writer-s-thesaurus-rick-moody\/11831240?ean=9780199829927&amp;next=t&amp;next=t\">Oxford American Writer\u2019s Thesaurus<\/a>, the most useful reference book<br \/>\nI\u2019ve ever owned. The pile to the left is a stack of documents, a mixture of<br \/>\ndrafts on which I need to make edits and various items that need filing at some<br \/>\npoint, though if I\u2019m being honest may never be filed. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBcdzajov-mpYrNEKhtdH4RR2h4CJAISGdCo94ec7-jkWvscXtUOorK-INAF7NEKRGyQDMkeTbTxaJYu1CmLYd2HPlInQXKD0bayZ6T7-Q8xstam30vTJ-vVKiTVJTWIblgeFVQZVGnLikDBNaRx8axXpeOL-idfgujfM2m2GCnLZ3Wp6nmKorX7XZM5Ju\/s1430\/tomPicture2.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1430\" data-original-width=\"1073\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEiBcdzajov-mpYrNEKhtdH4RR2h4CJAISGdCo94ec7-jkWvscXtUOorK-INAF7NEKRGyQDMkeTbTxaJYu1CmLYd2HPlInQXKD0bayZ6T7-Q8xstam30vTJ-vVKiTVJTWIblgeFVQZVGnLikDBNaRx8axXpeOL-idfgujfM2m2GCnLZ3Wp6nmKorX7XZM5Ju\/s320\/tomPicture2.jpg\" width=\"240\"\/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: .5in;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">In<br \/>\nthese photos you also see Larry, the lamp, rescued from the trash at my aunt\u2019s house<br \/>\nmany years ago. It felt criminal to let an artifact like this disappear. Larry,<br \/>\nfor the record, also weighs about 3000 pounds. The shelf to the left of the<br \/>\ndesk holds mostly teaching materials, among other doodads and keepsakes and<br \/>\nnonsense. The shelf has followed us for all 20 years we\u2019ve lived together, part<br \/>\nof a furniture set inherited from my wife\u2019s mother. Behind me, there is another<br \/>\nbookshelf, purchased at a consignment store and painted in the back yard, one<br \/>\nof many attempts to control the pile situation in my house. I wish the rug were<br \/>\nnicer but it\u2019s fine. It\u2019s all fine, it\u2019s all perfectly functional, which, as<br \/>\nsomeone who doesn\u2019t get especially romantic about the creative space, is all I<br \/>\nneed. I\u2019m not a writer who waits on the muse and waxes poetic about inspiration.<br \/>\nI think of myself as workmanlike in my approach to the job, just someone who<br \/>\nsits down and types and hopes for the best, and then gets back at it again the<br \/>\nnext day hoping to make it all a little better. Still, no matter what ends up<br \/>\nin the room, or what functions each item performs, I do tell myself<br \/>\nperiodically: you deserve this. I\u2019m not sure it\u2019s actually true, but you have<br \/>\nto say it sometimes. You try to prove you deserve it by the work you do in the<br \/>\nspace. You earn your small comforts by not wasting them.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjLKMn50nxCEbe_BEd3cCVFpNm8vLNCUQxRULhVLNMa-w9v7YPv9Z_iC-6H9k-epd1a9fJbEQuv82gI2D9eKoS_cGGGacK8rY6gVvy1djNj6cDNA3Nt8ZDJ2-yE0KxUPAdwGVsTu116hOXLDAEHQDOYLQ-fgmx8DTsXY8IjZ5n-B7zd9wvHsZPgrNkaMI6m\/s1430\/tomPicture3.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"1073\" data-original-width=\"1430\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEjLKMn50nxCEbe_BEd3cCVFpNm8vLNCUQxRULhVLNMa-w9v7YPv9Z_iC-6H9k-epd1a9fJbEQuv82gI2D9eKoS_cGGGacK8rY6gVvy1djNj6cDNA3Nt8ZDJ2-yE0KxUPAdwGVsTu116hOXLDAEHQDOYLQ-fgmx8DTsXY8IjZ5n-B7zd9wvHsZPgrNkaMI6m\/s320\/tomPicture3.jpg\" width=\"320\"\/><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif; font-size: 11.0pt;\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Welcome to another installment of TNBBC&#8217;s Where Writers Write! \u00a0 Where Writers Write\u00a0is a series that features authors as they showcase their writing spaces using short form essay, photos, and\/or video. As a lover of books and all of the hard work that goes into creating them, I thought it would be fun to see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[3767,2268,8100,10896,2108,4012,3686],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-230427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-blog","tag-book","tag-mcallister","tag-tnbbcs","tag-tom","tag-write","tag-writers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>TNBBC&#039;s The Next Best Book Blog: Where Writers Write: Tom McAllister - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=230427\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TNBBC&#039;s The Next Best Book Blog: Where Writers Write: Tom McAllister - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00a0Welcome to another installment of TNBBC&#8217;s Where Writers Write! \u00a0 Where Writers Write\u00a0is a series that features authors as they showcase their writing spaces using short form essay, photos, and\/or video. 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