9780814213193 | Ohio State Univ Pr, December 20, 2016, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: In The Writer in the Well: On Misreading and Rewriting Literature, Gary Weissman argues that the analysis of literature is fundamentally a writing-based practice, a practice in which the process of writing functions as a way of discovering one’s interpretation (or “rewriting”) of a text.