Several times a month, brilliant utterances bounce off the walls inside the mansion at the corner of 36th Street and Pennsylvania. The Writers Place is a spot where creative types convene to express themselves and discuss their inspiration and the implication of the symbols and sounds they string together. This can seem intimidating to non-writers, but sensitive souls like it when people plop into folding chairs and lend them an ear. On a reading night, the word handlers may take the shape of a baldheaded man uttering meditations about life on 39th Street, a woolly-haired woman reciting a lonesome love poem, or a shuffling young professor sharing a scene from his nationally acclaimed war novel.
