{"product_id":"into-the-weeds-von-lydia-davis","title":"Into the Weeds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn illuminating reflection on the creative process from acclaimed fiction writer, essayist, and translator Lydia Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e When asked why she writes, Lydia Davis confesses that she’s afraid of the question. Maybe she would rather not know exactly why she writes. Instead, Davis considers how she writes her stories, how other writers write, and what insights the \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e might provide into the \u003ci\u003ewhy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In this free-ranging exploration, Davis discovers that one reason she writes is for pleasure: the pleasure of encountering something that demands to be treated in language, of handling and manipulating the language into the form it ought to take, and, finally, of seeing a story exist where it didn’t exist before. As she observes the processes of some of the authors who interest her the most, she finds that there seem to be as many reasons to write as there are writers: to relive an experience, to share an experience, to articulate something one has not quite comprehended.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Reflecting on an eclectic mix of thinkers, including James Baldwin, Kate Briggs, Walter Raleigh, Christina Sharpe, Knut Hamsun, Grace Paley, Josep Pla, John Ashbery, and John Clare, Davis undertakes a clear-eyed, penetrating inquiry into the manifold reasons we choose to put pen to paper and begin something new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9780300279740\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover - 9780300279740","offer_id":58015986352453,"sku":"9780300279740","price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/c3ac526f-a9fc-4cad-be39-cc6df7f1f4f8.jpg?v=1779681695","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/en\/products\/into-the-weeds-von-lydia-davis","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}