Into the Weeds
$53.49
- Hardcover
152 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2026
Summary
Into the Weeds: Unearthing the Roots of Creativity
An illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis
When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that the question makes her uncomfortable. Maybe she would rather not know. Instead, Davis considers how she writes her stories, how other writers write, and what insights the how might provide into the why.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300279740 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300279744 |
| Author: | Lydia Davis |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 152 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 228g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 186mm x 131mm |
| Series: | Why I Write |
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“Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing back against mechanization and the collapse of context by reframing reading in the most particular and human terms.”—David L. Ulin, The Atlantic
About The Author
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is an award-winning writer and translator. She is the author, most recently, of Our Strangers, Essays One, and Essays Two. Her translations include Marcel Proust’s Swann’s Way, Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, and Michel Leiris’s The Rules of the Game, Volumes 1–3. She lives in Rensselaer County, NY.
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