Deborah Levy: Pushing Past Anxiety
Recommended Reading: THINGS I DON'T WANT TO KNOW and THE COST OF LIVING
At first, Deborah Levy’s Things I Don’t Want to Know doesn’t feel like it’s living up to the promises of its subtitle: “On Writing.” Instead, this slim memoir careens from a recent existential crisis to Levy’s childhood in apartheid-era South Africa to adolescent exile in England and finally back to the near-present. A writer’s block of some kind appear…