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On English language, Writing, and Writers
Two essays about writing and the English language by Tim Parks in The New York Review of Books Why Write in English? Tim Parks Why not write in a foreign language? If people feel free to choose their profession, their religion, and even, these days, their sex, why not just decide which language you want to write in and go for it? Ever since Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, her small memoir in Italian, people have been asking me, Why don’t you write in Italian, Tim? You’ve been in the country thirty-five years, after all. What keeps you tied to English? Is it just a question of economic convenience? That the market for books in English is bigger? That the world in general gives more attention to books written in English? Is that it? Certainly economics can be important. And politics too. Arguably, these were the factors that pushed Conrad and Nabokov to abandon their Polish and Russian mother tongues. If it is not possible to publish at home, or to publish the...
Library booklist (H:dR)
Standing by Words Wendell Berry Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition Wendell Berry The Language Wars Henry Hitchings Technique in Fiction Robie Macaulay Read to Write Donald Murray The Accidental Connoisseur Lawrence Osborne Invitations to the World: Teaching and Writing for the Young Richard Peck Signposts in a Strange Land Walker Percy Another Sort of Learning James Schall
Library Booklist (H:dS3b)
Do You Make These Mistakes in English? by Edwin L. Battistella On the Rez by Ian Frazier A Shopkeeper's Millenium by Paul Johnson Look Homeward, America by Bill Kauffman When I Was a Child, I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson Habits of the High-Tech Heart by Quentin Schultze