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Things I Don't Want to Know: A Living Autobiography

A luminescent treatise on writing, love, and loss, Things I Don't Want to Know is playwright and author Deborah Levy's witty response to George Orwell's influential essay 'Why I Write.'

"Perhaps when Orwell described sheer egoism as a necessary quality for a writer, he was not thinking about the sheer egoism of a female writer.  Even the most arrogant female writer has to work over time to build an ego that is robust enough to get her through January, never mind all the way to December." -- Deborah Levy