| Description |
vii, 512 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Contents |
Preface. The practice of writing. A beloved duck gets cooked: forms and influences I -- Commentary on one very short story ("in a house besieged") -- From raw material to finished work: forms and influences II -- A note on the word gubernatorial -- Visual artists: Joan Mitchell. Joan Mitchell and Les Bluets, 1973 -- Writers. John Ashbery's translation of Rimbaud's illuminations -- Young pynchon -- The story is the thing: Lucia Berlin's a manual for cleaning women -- A close look at two books by Rae Armantrout -- Small but perfectly formed: five favorite short stories -- Visual artists: Joseph Cornell. The impetus was delight: a response by Analogy to the work of Joseph Cornell -- The practice of writing (2). Sources, revision, order, and endings: forms and influences III -- Revising one sentence -- Found material, syntax, brevity, and the beauty of awkward prose: forms and influences IV -- Fragmentary or unfinished: Barthes, Joubert, Holderlin, Mallarme, Flaubert -- Thirty recommendations for good writing habits -- Visual artists: Alan Cote. Energy in color: Alan Cote's recent paintings -- Writers (2). "Emmy Moore's journal" by Jane Bowles -- Osama Alomar's very short tales in fullblood Arabian -- Haunting the flea market: Roger Lewinter's the attraction of things -- Red mittens: Anselm Hollo's translation from the Cheremiss -- In search of difficult Edward Dahlberg -- Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary -- Visual artists: Early tourist photographs. Dutch scenes: a portfolio of early twentieth-century tourist photographs -- Writers (3). The problem of plot summary in Blanchot's fiction -- Stendhal's alter ego: The life of Henry Brulard -- Maurice Blanchot absent -- A farewell to Michel Butor -- Michel Leiris's Fibrils, volume 3 of the rules of the game -- The bible, memory, and the passage of time. As I was reading -- Meeting Abraham Lincoln -- "Paring off the amphibologisms": Jesus recovered by the Jesus seminar -- A reading of the Shepherd's Psalm -- Remember the Van Wagenens. |
| Summary |
"A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Reading.
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Writing.
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| ISBN |
9780374148850 (hardcover) |
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0374148856 |
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