Dennis Zhou interviews the writer Daisy Hildyard about her story “Revision,” which appears in the December 23, 2024, issue of The New Yorker.
When I was Gabriel’s age, I would have found the idea of writing a campus story, and particularly one set in Oxford , mortifying and pathetic. There are already so many stories about the place, most of them bizarre fantasies of merrymaking élites. It’s a kind of novelty literature that never actually becomes new. Then I had this idea about a man who comes up with a plan to cheat a system that he feels stuck inside, and it interested me.
Writing the story felt like following all those feelings—trying to put my finger on them or play them out. The outside world continuously intrudes onto this cloistered setting.
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