Possible Clues:

• Lack of literary inspiration
• Irritating folk play modern music for Spooner -- a hindrance to creative work
• Author's hang-up
• Author's head failing to generate ideas
• The problem is, columnist hasn't got the vocabulary to describe the journalists' bar (6'1,5)
• What sounds like a cube, but isn't a cube?
• Novelist's bane
• Choice location for an author's house?
• Book stall?
• The problem is, columnist can't put down memoir of the journalists' bar? (6'1,5)