I had been living in Berlin for almost 15 years when I moved with my family from east to west across the axis of the city, into a typical late 19th-century apartment building on the banks of Berlin's Landwehr Canal. A building with its feet in the west but looking east, across the water's glassy surface, toward the historical city center. Along with a change of perspective, this move brought with it a return to the irregularities of working from home. When we lived in our old apartment, I had rented a separate ground-floor room in which to work. In this room, just big enough to fit a desk, with a single window facing the street, I could extract myself from the daily entanglements of domestic life and focus on the singular task of writing.
Kirsty Bell on capturing the history of a place.
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