Lydia Davis

  

Lydia Davis: ‘I write it the way I want to write it’ | Lydia Davis | The Guardian

 

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/nov/27/lydia-davis-i-write-it-the-way-i-want-to-write-it

 

 

What you have been reading lately?
I’m engrossed in Dirt to Soil by Gabe Brown, about regenerative agriculture and how to build healthy soil. Not quite what you might expect, maybe, but one of my big current preoccupations is to create a healthy environment in the small piece of land where we’ve been for about 15 years. It’s five acres, not a lot. A few years ago I began learning about permaculture and we put in a young orchard and just went on from there. Last year I was reading Isabella Tree’s Wilding, which fed into all this, and Douglas Tallamy, who writes about creating an environmentally supportive spot in your own yard. His belief, which I agree with, is that we have to start in our own little plots; we can’t wait for governments.