Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is the author of The End of the Story: A Novel and several story collections. Her collection Varieties of Disturbance: Stories was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. She is the recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award of Merit Medal, and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust. Lydia Davis is the winner of the 2013 Man Booker International Prize.
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Lydia Davis at the FSG Reading Series
Award-winning writer and translator Lydia Davis debuts a few short works at the FSG Reading Series Russian Samovar in New York. Here, she turns a series of mistakes about her name, career, and accomplishments into a short work that, due to its own logic, can never be finished.
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Essays Two
Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A collection of essays on translation, foreign languages, Proust, and one French city, from the master short-fiction writer and acclaimed translator Lydia Davis
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Thyroid Diary
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Lydia Davis
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Thyroid Diary is a story by Lydia Davis, "widely considered one of the most original minds in American fiction today.” (The New Yorker)...
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Essays One
Lydia Davis
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
A selection of essays on writing and reading by the master short-fiction writer Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is a writer whose originality,...
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Can't and Won't
Lydia Davis
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The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis
Picador
Picador
Lydia Davis is one of our most original and influential writers. She has been called "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon) and "one of the quiet giants . . . of American...
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Break It Down
FSG Classics
Lydia Davis
Picador
Picador
The thirty-four stories in this seminal collection powerfully display what have become Lydia Davis's trademarks—dexterity, brevity, understatement, and surprise. Although the certainty of her prose...
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Varieties of Disturbance
Lydia Davis
Picador
Picador
Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator...
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The End of the Story
Lydia Davis
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Mislabeled boxes, problems with visiting nurses, confusing notes, an outing to the county fair—such are the obstacles in the way of the unnamed narrator of The End of the Story as she attempts to...
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Samuel Johnson Is Indignant
Lydia Davis
Picador
Picador
From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which...
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Almost No Memory
Lydia Davis
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Picador
Philosophical inquiry, examinations of language, and involuted domestic disputes are the focus of Lydia Davis's inventive collection of short fiction, Almost No Memory. In each of these...
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