Book Review: Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason Reviews Essays Two by Lydia Davis
Wyatt Mason. Photo by Hannah Tennant-Moore.
Bard Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason reviews celebrated short fiction writer and translator Lydia Davis’s most recent book for the New York Times. “Essays Two, Lydia Davis’s new collection of 19 pieces on translation and the learning of languages, all written over the past two decades, offers overwhelming proof of the benefits to a writer of a practice of translation,” writes Mason. And yet readers “with no interest in translation, little taste for essays and zero desire to become writers will nonetheless find themselves burning through its 571 pages,” he asserts. “[W]ith recognition that the mind we’re meeting on the page is awake to the world in ways that feel necessary and new.”
Post Date: 12-07-2021
Post Date: 12-07-2021