The friend sigrid nunez summary6/21/2023 Some of them center on women writers and their interactions with literary men, which raises other, related questions. But books about writers also directly address certain questions that other novels might only deal with obliquely: what are stories made of? Why do we tell them, and who tells them? How must life be transformed in order to become literature? The books I’ve mentioned are written by women. My interest, I’m sure, comes in part from being enrolled in a writing program, an environment that often stokes the impulse to both navel-gaze and develop curiosity about the lives of other writers. But recently I’ve found myself drawn to fiction that’s about writers: Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry, Sigrid Nunez’s The Friend, Rachel Cusk’s Outline, Jenny Offill’s Department of Speculation. There seemed to be something self-congratulatory and navel-gazing about it. For a long time I didn’t like reading-or writing-stories about writers.
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