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Nov 12, 2019 · By Lydia Davis Illustrated. 512 pp. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $30. A version of this article appears in print on , Page 16 of the Sunday Book Review with the headline: In a Word .
Mar 10, 2014 · Davis lives with her husband, Alan Cote, an abstract painter, in a tiny village in Rensselaer County, New York. Cote is large, warm, taciturn, and wears a mustache. Their house is a converted ...
Lydia Davis has 358 books on Goodreads with 217999 ratings. Lydia Davis’s most popular book is The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.
Dec 3, 2023 · Lydia Davis is known for her minimalist fiction – “economy, precision and originality” is how the author Ali Smith once described her style. Her shortest story, Index Entry, amounts to just ...
Jul 15, 2020 · Over the years, Lydia Davis has gifted us with dozens of interviews chronicling her relationship to literature, laying out her writing process, and analyzing the many craft-related choices that writers make every day. Today is her birthday and a great time to re-read many of those interviews, with a few selections of her advice for writers below.
Jun 26, 2014 · LYDIA DAVIS of New Zealand followed her husband “Dr. Tom" back to his home island of Rarotonga and was his valiant ally during the six years of his uphill struggle as medical officer in the Cook ...
Oct 5, 2023 · Lydia Davis can fold entire lifetimes worth of meaning and nuance into a single sentence, making even a mundane moment into a momentous diving board into an ocean of ideas. While a few story in the writer and translator’s newest collection, Our Strangers , last several pages, the vast majority are confined to a single page and many contain only a few brief lines.
