If Starbucks isn’t highbrow enough of a place for you to be spotted working hard on your newest screenplay or The Next Great American Novel, consider Paragraph, a workspace for writers located conveniently in a 2500 square foot loft on West 14th Street. From the website:

Paragraph was created by writers for writers, with an understanding that writers work best in a quiet, comfortable space away from the hurry and obligation of urban life.

The area has a writing room, with 38 “partitioned desks” (cubicles) where “members secure the right to a desk, a lamp and a power strip in a shared space where they can ply their trade day and night,” says the New York Times. There is also a kitchen and lounge area, where writers can presumably chat about Proust and lament the hardships of being a starving, struggling writer in New York City.

But there’s a catch – you can’t be too much of a starving, struggling writer to join: full-time membership for a year costs $702, or $117 a month. That’s more than it costs to maintain the obligatory writer’s smoking habit, so make sure you publish a book or two (like The Devil Wears Prada) first to be able afford it. 

“Basically, it’s just a quiet place to write,” says one of the proprietors of Paragraph. 

Photo: Ruby Washington/The New York Times