The Coolest Place to Work
Since October 2008, I have been a proud member of Paragraph, New York City's hippest writer's space. (I've also been their part-time employee, maintaining their website, monthly newsletter and other communications.) I joined Paragraph as a newly-hatched freelancer, desperate to leave the confines of an apartment that seemed to shrink with every hour I spent over my laptop. I wanted to put on real pants and go to work with the other grownups. And at the end of the day, I wanted to leave work and feel like I was coming home.
Enter Paragraph. For a very small monthly fee, writers get a cubicle in a pleasant, airy space, with Internet, free coffee and dozens of other like-minded creative office mates. It has saved my career, my relationship and my sanity. And it's one of the world's coolest working spaces! Can't argue with that.
The Brazilian newsmagazine Vitrine just did a feature on Paragraph. The back of my head is briefly visible in one of the cubicle shots (fortunately, they caught me working, not Facebooking) but it's a fun look at a day in the life of Paragraph. In Portugese, of course.
Posted on Tuesday, Sep 22, 2009
