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Davis, Lydia, 1947- author.
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Mitchell, Joan, 1925-1992.
Cornell, Joseph.
Cote, Alan, 1937-
Authorship.
Fiction -- Technique.
Writing.
Reading.
Art.
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Essays one / Lydia Davis.
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Davis, Lydia, 1947- author.
New York : Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Subjects
Mitchell, Joan, 1925-1992.
Cornell, Joseph.
Cote, Alan, 1937-
Authorship.
Fiction -- Technique.
Writing.
Reading.
Art.
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9781250758156 (paperback) :
1250758157 (paperback) :
Description:
x, 512 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Edition:
First Picador paperback edition.
Contents:
Preface -- The practice of writing -- Visual artists: Joan Mitchell -- Writers -- Visual artists: Joseph Cornell -- The practice of writing (2) -- Visual artists: Alan Cote -- Writers (2) -- Visual artists: early tourist photographs -- Writers (3) -- The Bible, memory, and the passage of time.
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, Hölderlin, Mallarmé, 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.
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"A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis"--
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