European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 29, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Stripes Richard he Muriel in his Light filled study when it is really i put on my Green Uylus Taweik new Cvrk times the wc1te room with its Mickey mouse Telephone and its us Napoleon lieu rings would hardly or judged an Ideal work ing Selling by most far Tram Call it insisted Ilich Ard the Interior designer who is also the author of the  a highly Success Ful whodunit published by random House last Tell Why do writers have to wok in seedy rooms the problem some authors might have with Kim nuts recently added to his North Brook Home near is not so much that its Slick which i is but that it has Loo much Sun most Days the gun never quits the flood ing it from Dawn to theres a mirrored skylight and 12  windows in the Buok lined its never too much fur him Niel when it is really i put on my Green then theres the swimming which is always distracting by in focus or anyone seated at the when the Siller swing turning his Back to the Oval work on even More tempting View beckons the indoor distractions arc even More for the roams super size its 18 Tret by 32 feel by 9 feel writers have been known to claim that in such sprawling their output whereas when lucked in a closet the chapters that not the Case with give me 1 suffocate in tight this is boyhood dream Lime for Ever since i was a kid Ive dreamed of having one huge Oval table under a sky Light where 1 can what about All those Napoleonic gee Gawa filling the upper Napoleons on horseback and just staring there Are a Hundred in All an impressive collection that Himmel has assembled for reasons he refuses to tool want to he i have ton much Lime and a Antey As templing As Small Napoleons Are la him on Soeurm else in an Antiques fur he has never had tht1 urge to rearrange when he sat Down Aline that Flimin act he is far Tuo disciplined for such he takes a drink theres a bar at the Entrance to the room or makes a phone Call on his Mickey or looks at his Leger Rug or his Lalanne sheep sculpture Only after his work is Orsone As far the books pm dozens of Shelve thai Lin thu Walls of the at first they did distract All those All that he so he had them Bach one was put in a White dust including us impressive collection of first editions of Steinbeck Law Faulkner and but the cd Lect of while Book jackets on others can lie some tis Ilon gel toe impression thai the nooks Are or find the shiny White spinet much Mare noticeable loan Ordinary i  care Himmel the important thing is they dont distract me and anyone who sits Here for 10 or 15 Man Utica gets wed to thu Himmel did not write the Twenty third web in his but he used the Advance to help pay for the he wrote the thriller its about an Ara sponsored scheme to blackmail american jews in the basement by he Pool in the i Mills Palm Springs Winter and in the dressing room of their Chicago psf a but 11 is not Himm cys first venture into he wrote h novels adventure tales and Pulpi after he resumed from Venice in world War but the is Tho Botik i wrote Ahtl Doran All i Hurst wire 1 sold Gnu but nude less limn Ull that when i began la think 1 should switch la surf a so he jew Jahed o he Juinta his Ciatur in the midl9sos in her Interior design business and several years utter took it Over the s now an Art two years he hit a everything i wan doing Wax beginning to look he Ive got in ego an it takes a jul of fuel to keep it he had Long viewed writing As unfinished Busi and it bothered him that be had never returned to the career he had chosen was years old and i knew i had to do it then or it would never Fate in the form of a delayed flight in got him the three hour wait in the Minal was enough to set up the opening of the then i had to because i never Enow Haw its going to end until i gel hardcover another thriller involving the Cia and was written in the new room and will be published next As for the decorating assignment thai the Book namely a workroom for Himmel that although he has had some unusual assignments including a Chicago discotheque of which he is also part he had never before done a writers 1 did do an apartment for Saul Bellow and his wife but when u came to doing his he i gues us closest f Ever came until now to doing a room Tor a writer was the room i didst a for Saul