“Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art” by Willa Cather, with a foreword by Stephen Tennant, is now available on cartridge and for download on BARD, the Braille and Audio Reading Download service. BARD is a service offered by the Nebraska Library Commission Talking Book and Braille Service and the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled at the Library of Congress.
In this collection of essays and letters first published in 1949, Willa Cather writes about her own fiction and that of Sarah Orne Jewett, Stephen Crane, and Katherine Mansfield, among others.
She concludes, “Art is a concrete and personal and rather childish thing after all—no matter what people do to graft it into science and make it sociological and psychological; it is no good at all unless it is let alone to be itself—a game of make-believe, of re-production, very exciting and delightful to people who have an ear for it or an eye for it.”
TBBS borrowers can request “Willa Cather on Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art” DBC02164 or download it from the National Library Service BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) website. If you have high-speed internet access, you can download books to your smartphone or tablet, or onto a flash drive for use with your player. You may also contact your reader’s advisor to have the book mailed to you on cartridge.
